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DanielInKorea
Joined: 28 Nov 2005
Location: Not a small village
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 Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 9:33 am Post subject: Konglish�� |
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Ah, this is great stuff. I've been collecting pics like this for some time, and the collection is growing... I host them on my Cyworld page ^^
Just tonight I was at a restaurant called 'Into the Time.' On their cocktail menu they had "Orgasms" for W 6000...
Well, it beats other places hands down. |
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cruisemonkey
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Location: Hopefully, the same place as my luggage.
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| Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 1:19 pm Post subject: |
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C*m on in!  I hope they have private booths!  |
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Gord
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 1:29 pm Post subject: Re: Konglish�� |
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| DanielInKorea wrote: |
Just tonight I was at a restaurant called 'Into the Time.' On their *beep* menu they had "Orgasms" for W 6000...
Well, it beats other places hands down. |
That's on the menu at many cocktail bars around the world. It's amaretto, Kahlua and Bailey's Irish Cream. |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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| yeah, sorry dude, if it was a cocktail, it wasn't konglish. now, if they named some pasta like that, then you got a winner. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't think that really counts as Konglish. Konglish is like �� or �Ľ�Ÿ or ������ �̽� �� ���ֽ�. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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I heard two good examples of Konglish today.
-"I can't find the limocon."
-my girlfriend was talking about "sleepworking" until I realised she meant "sleepwalking." |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Qinella wrote: |
| I don't think that really counts as Konglish. Konglish is like �� or �Ľ�Ÿ or ������ �̽� �� ���ֽ�. |
konglish, as koreans think of it, is any time english is misused by koreans. it's got a specifically bad connotation. so �� isn't konglish, because it's pretty much used correctly |
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hypnotist
Joined: 04 Dec 2004
Location: I wish I were a sock
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| Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2005 8:49 pm Post subject: |
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Konglish has got me some very strange looks in the past.
Ordering "���� ��Ʈ" in English has got me not a meal, but three burgers.
Took me a while to realise that they thought I was saying "���� ��". 
(Do I look that fat? *sudden neuroses*) |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 7:15 am Post subject: yes |
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I am surprised with that. It's improper grammar to be ordering 3 burgers. It must be the way you pronounced it.
It should be ���� 3�� if you want 3.
| hypnotist wrote: |
Konglish has got me some very strange looks in the past.
Ordering "���� ��Ʈ" in English has got me not a meal, but three burgers.
Took me a while to realise that they thought I was saying "���� ��".
(Do I look that fat? *sudden neuroses*) |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 7:38 am Post subject: |
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| billybrobby wrote: |
| Qinella wrote: |
| I don't think that really counts as Konglish. Konglish is like �� or �Ľ�Ÿ or ������ �̽� �� ���ֽ�. |
konglish, as koreans think of it, is any time english is misused by koreans. it's got a specifically bad connotation. so �� isn't konglish, because it's pretty much used correctly |
Oh, I always thought of Konglish as any word borrowed from English and written with Korean letters. |
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hypnotist
Joined: 04 Dec 2004
Location: I wish I were a sock
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 8:05 am Post subject: Re: yes |
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| Ilsanman wrote: |
I am surprised with that. It's improper grammar to be ordering 3 burgers. It must be the way you pronounced it.
It should be ���� 3�� if you want 3.
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That's what I thought, although you almost never hear �Ѱ� these days - so maybe the use of the generic counting marker is on its way out?
It could also be that I ordered a burger that they decided didn't come as part of a ��Ʈ.
As I said, though, I pronounced it as "set" and not as "��Ʈ". |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 8:14 am Post subject: |
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I just figured Konglish was mostly really poor and often incomprehensible English, either the way it is written or pronounced, and terms like "autobi" for motorcycle and "one piece" for dress.
Stationery, clothing and signs offer lots of gobbledygook, and no doubt most of us hear lousy English and poor prononuciation all day long.
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ticktock
Joined: 14 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 8:15 am Post subject: |
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To the OP - I'm in Newcastle and there's a restaurant by the city center called 'HO BUFFET' (yeah, yeah, highly amusing, totally asking for it etc)- and it's got nothing to do with koreans so would you classify that as konglish?
My point? Think before you stereotype. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2005 8:23 am Post subject: |
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Isn't Ho a common Chinese name? We laugh because of what it sounds like in English slang. Big deal.
I figure Korean boys would never want the English nickname "Mitch"
( similar to crazy)
And some Korean kids once laughed when they heard that old song, "I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect..."
harmony (grandmother) |
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mack the knife
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: standing right behind you...
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| Posted: Sun Dec 11, 2005 5:41 am Post subject: |
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"Toilet man" sign at the entrance to a men's urinal.
"Trashy bin" in place of "trash bin". |
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