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endo

Joined: 14 Mar 2004 Location: Seoul...my home
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 11:29 am Post subject: Korean Girls Say the Darndest Things! |
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By girlfriends great and her level on english is not bad. However, since it's not her primary language, she is prone to the occasional grammar miscue, which I sometimes find hilarious.
Here are some examples;
Sometimes when she is very thankful about something she says;
"Thank you for me"
Or she gets her "he" and "she" mixed up which can really mess up the point she is trying to make.
But the funniest one happened a few nights ago when she said lets try a "96"
I was able to withhold my laughter based on the situation, but I laughed my ass off the next morning. |
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uber1024
Joined: 28 Jul 2003 Location: New York City
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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I taught my girlfriend the phrase "I have good news and bad news".
A few weeks later I get an email with the subject line "good new and bad new". When I opened it, sure enough, there was only one piece of good news and one piece of bad news. |
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zappadelta

Joined: 31 Aug 2004
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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I taught my girlfriend the phrase "I have good news and bad news".
A few weeks later I get an email with the subject line "good new and bad new". When I opened it, sure enough, there was only one piece of good news and one piece of bad news. |
That's great |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 4:35 pm Post subject: Re: Korean Girls Say the Darndest Things! |
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endo wrote: |
Or she gets her "he" and "she" mixed up which can really mess up the point she is trying to make.
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I've noticed this among even Koreans with quite excellent English (excellent for having not really lived abroad). It confuses the hell out of me too. |
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Old fat expat

Joined: 19 Sep 2005 Location: a caravan of dust, making for a windy prairie
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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I took a couple of my Korean co-workers out to eat for lunch. On the way back to the hogwon one of them turned to me to thank me for the meal and said:
"Thanks for eating me out"
As delicatly as I could I explained, and laughed.
If only. |
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Khunopie

Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Location: Fucking, Austria (pronounced "Fooking")
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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On a first date, just after "first date sex", the girl said "how much do you love me?"
How can I quantify that? |
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VanIslander

Joined: 18 Aug 2003 Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 5:33 pm Post subject: |
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Khunopie wrote: |
On a first date, just after "first date sex", the girl said "How much do you love me?"
How can I quantify that? |
Where are you from?
In my Western Canadian upbringing that was an entirely natural question. And in the perfect context (I've had Canadian girlfriends ask the same question in the same context, though usually after a few more dates than that).
Answer: "This much" (accompanied by physical gesture of arms spread wide as if hugging a piano, or apart like picking up a t.v. or a two-finger mock measurement of the length of a pencil.) |
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Khunopie

Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Location: Fucking, Austria (pronounced "Fooking")
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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VanIslander wrote: |
Khunopie wrote: |
On a first date, just after "first date sex", the girl said "How much do you love me?"
How can I quantify that? |
Where are you from?
In my Western Canadian upbringing that was an entirely natural question. And in the perfect context (I've had Canadian girlfriends ask the same question in the same context, though usually after a few more dates than that).
Answer: "This much" (accompanied by physical gesture of arms spread wide as if hugging a piano, or apart like picking up a t.v. or a two-finger mock measurement of the length of a pencil.) |
Sure, but for a first date I thought it to be a bit odd. BTW I answered: "I love you a lot". I'm sure that's the right answer. |
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jaganath69

Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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My wife (Indonesian) is pretty good with her English, having studied in Australia for 2 years, but still gives the he/she thing a good mix up every now and again. Its largely a result of there being no gendered pronouns in Bahasa Indonesia. |
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billybrobby

Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, wow, yes, that reminds me of a story. I has having a wild threesome with these two hot identical twins i had just met 30 minutes ago. And in the middle of it all, one of the girls used a preposition to end a sentence. hoo hoo boy! i laughed and laughed. |
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kermo

Joined: 01 Sep 2004 Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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billybrobby wrote: |
Oh, wow, yes, that reminds me of a story. I has having a wild threesome with these two hot identical twins i had just met 30 minutes ago. And in the middle of it all, one of the girls used a preposition to end a sentence. hoo hoo boy! i laughed and laughed. |
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Khunopie

Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Location: Fucking, Austria (pronounced "Fooking")
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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billybrobby wrote: |
Oh, wow, yes, that reminds me of a story. I has having a wild threesome with these two hot identical twins i had just met 30 minutes ago. And in the middle of it all, one of the girls used a preposition to end a sentence. hoo hoo boy! i laughed and laughed. |
Ok, now you're bragging, you bragging bragger. |
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shakuhachi

Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Location: Sydney
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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billybrobby wrote: |
Oh, wow, yes, that reminds me of a story. I has having a wild threesome with these two hot identical twins i had just met 30 minutes ago. And in the middle of it all, one of the girls used a preposition to end a sentence. hoo hoo boy! i laughed and laughed. |
Haha, I hope you gave them a good spanking. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib
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Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2005 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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I met a girl at a Starbucks who gave me her email address and phone number, and then said, "Please touch me." |
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fruitcake

Joined: 18 Apr 2004 Location: shinchon
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Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2005 12:31 am Post subject: |
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had one of my female university students write on her exam "would you mind riding me?" The correct answer was "would you mind giving me a ride?", but given the right context, that sentence would have been just fine. |
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