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mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

You know in the last 3 or 4 months, my kids have all seemed to discover the f-word and the Trudeau salute (aka the finger). It was the odd kid that would drop the f-bomb last year but it seems to becoming more common.

The evil penguin

BigBlackEquus · Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2006 11:45 pm Post subject:

F-bomb?

As in bahngoo?

Laughing

ajuma · Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Location: Anywere but Seoul!!

Great time to practice pronunciation!! It's not Pucka U! There is NO univeristy by this name!! Cool

bluelake · Joined: 01 Dec 2005

It's become a problem in Korea because translations of Western movies in the cinema and on TV never gave the true meanings in Korean for cuss words. The English word/phrase is given in its entirety, but the Korean translation is very weak, and often isn't even in the ballpark. If they put equivalent translations in the movies, many of those shows would never be shown in prime time.

Kenny Kimchee · Joined: 12 May 2003

Off topic, but I got a buddy back home whose three year old kid just started dropping the F bomb. My friend tends to get a little "excited" when watching football. Apparently, the kid's got a good ear; he dropped something the other day and was like "F#$&" My buddy is an insurance agent in a small town, in the Rotary Club, goes to church, etc, so he's gotta keep appearances up. He's shaking in his boots in anticipation of Junior dropping the bomb at church...

Demonicat · Joined: 18 Nov 2004 Location: Suwon

man, on my last day of my old contract I snapped. I taught all my middle schoolers (the ones who wanted to know), the correct way to curse. Bear in mind that I'm from the north east, so my kids we're leaving that night talking like the sopranos.
"Yo! Shelby! Puck (pronunced correctly though) you!"
"No!, No Puck you"
(both) "fagettaboutit"

Richard Krainium · Joined: 12 Jan 2006

My favorite f/p. "Teacher, Teacher! Sung-il puck you'd me!"

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

None of mine know and won't be learning it, either.

At my old hogwan there was a 12-year-old girl who would come up and ask me 'teachuh, what is mean d*ckhead? What is w*nker? What is b*st*rd?'.

I do believe this was the work of a certain Brit in our academy and not TV.

tomato · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 7:42 pm Post subject:

When when a student gives someone a finger, I pretend to confuse the signal for the Korean sign language signal for "mountain."
Then I say, "Oh! So you want to talk about mountains!"
Then I show photographs which I got through a Google search.

If the student does it again, I show the pictures again.
If the student does it again, I show the pictures a third time.

When a student says the word which sounds like ��, I say, "Oh! So you want to talk about the number eighteen!"
Then I show pictures of 18 cats, 18 dogs, and so forth.

If the student says it again, I show the pictures again.
If the student says it again, I show the pictures a third time.

The class eventually gets tired of the pictures, so they pressure the student to stop.

pet lover · Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Location: not in Seoul

Tomato, I love that!

oldfatfarang · Joined: 19 May 2005 Location: On the road to somewhere.

I've been teaching for 13 months now. 2 months ago one of my students told me : "F..k you." I was gobsmacked. Is this Korea???
I cancelled the class and told the director. The school told me that "Kids in Korea don't know what that means." I said that she most certainly DID know exactly what she was saying.

The school made the 2 girls apologise to me later. I stupidly kept teaching them but their attitude only went from bad to worse. After 3 more classes of disruptive and disrespectful behavior I refused to teach the class. I wrote to the parents expaining why. I don't know if the school ever told the parents why they no longer have a 'foreign teacher.'

Anyway, I WON'T be teaching that class again. Even though the school has tried twice to re-start me teaching it. I discussed this with my korean adult students - Guess what they said I should have done???
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xeno439 · Joined: 30 Nov 2005

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Big Mac · Joined: 17 Sep 2005

Has anyone actually corrected them when they say "Puck you?" I didn't think it was ethical for me to tell them to pronounce it properly.

I don't think they understand how bad it is. I always explain to them that if I would have said that word when I was their age in a classroom in Canada, I would have been sent straight to the principal's office.

Some of my students gained an affection for the phrase "son of a bitch." They asked me what it meant and I explained it to them. Then it started showing up in their writing and I felt bad.