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parghi22
Joined: 01 May 2006
Location: Vancouver, BC
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 Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 10:34 am Post subject: Waegook Man |
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brento1138
Joined: 17 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 10:59 am Post subject: Re: Waegook Man |
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| I like the "stick-visor" that adjuma is wearing. Nice touch. She really gets pissy. Seems the stick man forgot to pay her... |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 1:19 pm Post subject: |
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Funny
"this" jusayo
neh?
"dis uh"?
ahh... diss uh ... ok |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 2:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Hope it didn't take too long to make that. |
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tardisrider
Joined: 13 Mar 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Clearly from the Matt Feazell School of Fine Arts. Not that there's anything wrong with that. |
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Col.Brandon
Joined: 09 Aug 2004
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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LOL, parghi22!
What was the name of Buck Rogers's little robot friend? Ah, Twicki.. bidi-bidi-bidi.
There must be a story behind this... why did the adjuma melt down? |
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yodanole
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: La Florida
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| Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 12:32 am Post subject: |
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| My experience buying smokes is often frustrating. I say "This" and they say "Time...Esse?" About 50% of the time. Another problem is my phone # ends in 1 and I live in Bldg. #101, so when I give my phone number to someone the write 2 and the taxi driver takes me to Bldg #202. These exchanges occur in Korean and I've tested this with my friends and they say it's not a problem with my pronunciation. But then my friend are still surprised that I can use chopsticks! |
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numazawa
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Location: The Concrete Barnyard
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| Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 1:31 am Post subject: |
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Man, that cartoon is so life-like. I mean, except for the dialogue.
Still, how do we know the "ajumma" isn't actually one of those new-fangled pseudo-female androids they've recently devised here?
For that matter, how do we know that her evident distress and psycho-kinetic structural breakdown wasn't precipitated by her perception that the counterparty in the transaction was sporting as a headpiece the universally recognized warning for radioactivity?
Ah, questions, questions. The ambiguity, the refractory nature of it all. Alas. |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 4:58 am Post subject: |
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| yodanole wrote: |
| My experience buying smokes is often frustrating. I say "This" and they say "Time...Esse?" About 50% of the time. Another problem is my phone # ends in 1 and I live in Bldg. #101, so when I give my phone number to someone the write 2 and the taxi driver takes me to Bldg #202. These exchanges occur in Korean and I've tested this with my friends and they say it's not a problem with my pronunciation. But then my friend are still surprised that I can use chopsticks! |
I hear you. Even though I smoke like a jailed *beep*, buy up to 2 packs a day and consider a request for coffin nails to be the best part of my limited Korean repitoire, there is a corner store nearest to the uni I teach at where the adjuma is so clueless to my requests that I just point to the silly fuggin things now. |
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Cedar
Joined: 11 Mar 2003
Location: In front of my computer, again.
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| Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 5:44 am Post subject: |
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| yodanole wrote: |
| My experience buying smokes is often frustrating. I say "This" and they say "Time...Esse?" About 50% of the time. Another problem is my phone # ends in 1 and I live in Bldg. #101, so when I give my phone number to someone the write 2 and the taxi driver takes me to Bldg #202. These exchanges occur in Korean and I've tested this with my friends and they say it's not a problem with my pronunciation. But then my friend are still surprised that I can use chopsticks! |
Koreans have the same problem, so they often use "hana" even though grammar would dictate "il". For example:
the phone number is:
"gong il gong, i hana sam, yuk chil yuk hana".
If you don't believe me, ask your Korean friends how it sounds if you substitute "hana" in your phone number (not in the 011 or 010 part, but later on where people can screw up).
For the apartment, I am not sure how "baek il dong" could turn into "i baek i dong". But it still doesn't surprise me! |
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parghi22
Joined: 01 May 2006
Location: Vancouver, BC
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| Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 9:48 am Post subject: |
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| i was trying to convey the fact that every time i went to family mart for smokes and spoke even a tiny bit of korean, whoever was behind the counter would start going off in korean and i had no idea what they were saying, so i'd answer back in english and they'd just keep talking to me in korean...i thought it was comical... |
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parghi22
Joined: 01 May 2006
Location: Vancouver, BC
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| Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 9:50 am Post subject: |
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oh yeah, and the ajumma "melted down" because she was talking like crazy...sort of...
---overloading---
heh |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.
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| Posted: Sat May 06, 2006 11:19 pm Post subject: |
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what's really gonna suck is if you guys all decide to quit.
"nicorettes, jusayo"
"eeenh?"
"ni-cor-ettes."
"ohhh. nicolettuh".
"transdermal nicotine patches, jusayo"
"tuhlanja dommal nicotinuh patchuh?"
"neh."
yeah, dudes. keep smoking. it'll just be simpler in the end. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun May 07, 2006 6:11 am Post subject: |
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I had a friend in a small town in Korea once, and he wanted to go somewhere in a taxi near the KFC, the only one in that town.
"KFC"
"Neh?"
"Kay eff see"
Neh?
He was new to Korea. Did not know to say " Kay Eppuh shee" |
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yodanole
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
Location: La Florida
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| Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 1:39 am Post subject: |
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Cedar,
You are right about that. I've had the secretary give "hana" as the last digit of my phone number when speaking to someone on the phone in my behalf. Still not sure how "il" and "ee" are so hard to tell apart. |
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