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[Medic]

I was sitting in a Korean English teachers class once and heard him say repeat after me "It pissed me off, It pissed me off, it pissed me off"

"Oh Sh-t, Oh Sh-t, Oh Sh-t"

"Fart, Fart, Fart"

[RACETRAITOR]

Start teaching them Korean swears. That's what I do.

One of my co-workers wanted to teach the phrase "Why don't you go screw yourself?" and I translated it roughly back into Korean as ���߳��. She said "No, because the English phrase isn't sexual." I had to explain what "screw" means.

Her main argument: "But they say it in movies all the time."

[Wrench]

After studing Korean I've come to the conclusion that English is much more colorful language. Much more expressive then Korean is..

[antoniothegreat]

for some reason, they think if it is in a movie, it is ok to say. i dont understant, i assume they have a lot more sensorship here, so they assume our movies are the same, are they wrong....

[Unreal]

I just learned that one of my students watched "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" at middle school last year. Apparently watching any movie in English makes it a wholesome experience, so quoting obscenities from such movies must also be just as wholesome.

[laogaiguk]

[Len8]

They sometimes don"t get the English equivalent of their swear words (yoke) right either. I was talking to a student about one of their swear words and she said it was "son of b--ch " in English. You all know what the word is right. I was splitting myself when she said it, because without the "a" and with her saying it the way she did it was just so funny. I couldn't bring myself to correct her.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[I_Am_Wrong]

one of the K-english teachers at my middle school was teaching all her first grade classes about the expression "What's up?" and she then explained that a lot of young people in North America just say "s'up?" The students have really taken a liking to this...everywhere I go in the school now I hear first graders saying "Yo Mr. Turner, s'up?" it's hilarious.