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Joined: 08 Jan 2006
Location: Daejeon
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�汤 - bladder
A friend taught me a sure-fire game-killing word, but I never seem to arrive in time to use it. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 6:49 am Post subject: |
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�汤 - bladder
A friend taught me a sure-fire game-killing word, but I never seem to arrive in time to use it. |
���� - advertisement
What is the word? |
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cwemory
Joined: 14 Jan 2006
Location: Gunpo, Korea
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| Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 7:22 am Post subject: |
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| ����- express |
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Joined: 08 Jan 2006
Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 7:35 am Post subject: |
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�Ӹ��� - innermost feelings
In the spirit of education and the imparting of knowledge, I'll give the word. It is important not to abuse its power, however. The world is �⽾ (edge of a river/foot of a mountain). It also occurs as the last part of at least two compound words: ��⽾ and ���⽾.
Now I've said too much. I think I hear them coming for me now... |
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Cedar
Joined: 11 Mar 2003
Location: In front of my computer, again.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 10:05 am Post subject: |
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| �������� ear training (for musicians and singers) |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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������
Meat and chicken stew |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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��ֿ�: Handicapped/Disabled friend.
Which according to this morning's Joongang Daily is replacing:
�����: Handicapped/Disabled person. |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:38 pm Post subject: |
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| ���� - milk |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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���� - milk room, aka booby
Out of context, that certainly is a game killer. No one end with �� or �� or ��!  |
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Privateer
Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Location: Easy Street.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 8:06 pm Post subject: |
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��� - recent
So do you guys with the really obscure words have impressive vocabularies or are you just flicking through the dictionary? |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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�ݿ���: Friday.
I need to start working on some more exciting words. |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 10:52 pm Post subject: |
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| ���� - one kind of |
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flotsam
Joined: 28 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 11:45 pm Post subject: |
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| ����: Former, previous. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Son Deureo! wrote: |
| ���� - one kind of |
���� - kind of
| Privateer wrote: |
| So do you guys with the really obscure words have impressive vocabularies or are you just flicking through the dictionary? |
Yeah, I'm definitely impressed, especially with people who take up where I'm stumped. I've picked up a few obscure words in my studies, but there've definitely been a few in this game recently that I don't think I ever would've learned, such as ���� ���� and �Ժ�����. |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| flotsam wrote: |
| ����: Former, previous. |
Flotsam beat Qinella to it, so...
���� - light bulb
| flotsam wrote: |
| Yeah, I'm definitely impressed, especially with people who take up where I'm stumped. I've picked up a few obscure words in my studies, but there've definitely been a few in this game recently that I don't think I ever would've learned, such as ���� ���� and �Ժ�����. |
I know that Cedar is doing a Masters in Korean studies, and regularly studies ancient Korean history from original docs, and she has lived here for about ten years, so I'm not surprised knows a lot of obscure vocab.
The key to learning a lot of the Chinese-based vocab is to pay attention to the meaning of individual root syllables (if you're really cool like Mithridates, you'll also pick up how to read and write hanja, but I'm nowhere near that cool).
Take a word like Cedar's ���� ���� and break it down into individual root syllables and you get:
�� (��)- sound/music
�� (��)- sense
�� (��)- learning/teaching
�� (��)- raise, train
The unexcitingly titled Handbook of Korean Vocabulary: A Resource for Word Recognition and Comprehension by Miho Choo and William D. O'Grady
(http://www.whatthebook.com/book/0824818156?) is a good resource for this. So is learning hanja if you're up for it. Making a habit of reading often in Korean is also a good way to build your vocab.
Then again, when faced with a word that otherwise looks impossible like Į��, I'm not above checking Google or a dictionary for an answer. |
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