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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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 Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 10:17 am Post subject: Some funny things about korea |
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I guess I mean this in the humorous way.
I find it funny when I go into a Korean restaurant and order the food, and then they decide to talk about the foreigner who has ordered the food and I understand every word they say. How nice it is afterwards to speak a few nice sentences of Korean.
How nice to meet a Korean who balks at the foreigner(s) with "English no." then I flip into Korean way beyond whatever English he or she learned in school. I rarely do this. Most of the time I say as little as possible but when drunk it flies out of me, and generally I'm understood.
How they cannot believe you might know some of their language! Doesn't it belong to them? I figure I've convinced a few Koreans that language is a matter of exposure and practice. Still, many are amazed when a waygook goes beyond "anyyongyhaseyo" or "kamsawmeda" |
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formerflautist
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 10:25 am Post subject: |
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milf
Joined: 29 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 4:11 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, it's good to know more languages.
This doesn't happen in korea only though.  |
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identity
Joined: 22 Apr 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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| wow. i get that shit back in the us. makes you want to kill a bitch, but then i'd go to prison. |
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periwinkle
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 5:30 pm Post subject: Re: Some funny things about korea |
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| jajdude wrote: |
I find it funny when I go into a Korean restaurant and order the food, and then they decide to talk about the foreigner who has ordered the food and I understand every word they say. How nice it is afterwards to speak a few nice sentences of Korean.
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I hate it when people talk about me in front of me. Then again, I talk about people (very quietly with heavy slang, just in case they can understand), too. Usually it's comments about what someone's wearing- makes the subway ride go by a lot faster
Yesterday I saw 2 guys who were both wearing Lee jeans, but the jeans were cinched with a belt around their midsection. I think it's weird that some men's pants have such long crotches (I guess they were made for taller guys or something). I think it's weirder that some (generally older) guys think it looks good to have your pants riding halfway across your torso.  This ajossi also had both his ears pierced and was wearing very feminine looking cubic zirconia earrings.  Anyway, that's what I talk about.... Makes for some fascinating discourse. =) |
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seoulsucker
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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| Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 6:10 pm Post subject: Re: Some funny things about korea |
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| How they cannot believe you might know some of their language! " |
Because of their repeated exposure to douchebags who live here for a few years and refuse to learn a single phrase. |
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periwinkle
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 6:16 pm Post subject: Re: Some funny things about korea |
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| seoulsucker wrote: |
| jajdude wrote: |
| How they cannot believe you might know some of their language! " |
Because of their repeated exposure to douchebags who live here for a few years and refuse to learn a single phrase. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:00 pm Post subject: Re: Some funny things about korea |
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| periwinkle wrote: |
| seoulsucker wrote: |
| jajdude wrote: |
| How they cannot believe you might know some of their language! " |
Because of their repeated exposure to douchebags who live here for a few years and refuse to learn a single phrase. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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My Korean, beyond teaching terms and instructions, is crap, but I still love it when I've giving the impression that I understood whatever they were saying. I was recently walking past two elementary school girls and I heard Yogi blah blah blah Miguk-saram imnida blah blah blah and then turned around and corrected them. The expressions on their faces were priceless.
I also find it funny how, if they think you can't speak the language at all, drunken ajoshis will want you to come over and drink with them. |
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billybrobby
Joined: 09 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:51 pm Post subject: |
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I was recently walking past two elementary school girls and I heard Yogi blah blah blah Miguk-saram imnida blah blah blah and then turned around and corrected them. The expressions on their faces were priceless.
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Don't you feel a little nervous about doing when you don't know what they're saying? Maybe they looked shocked because one of them said "here is the place where I met that american guy last week" and then some guy walks up to them and announces his nationality for no apparent reason at all. |
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stumptown
Joined: 11 Apr 2005
Location: Paju: Wife beating capital of Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
I was recently walking past two elementary school girls and I heard Yogi blah blah blah Miguk-saram imnida blah blah blah and then turned around and corrected them. The expressions on their faces were priceless.
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Don't you feel a little nervous about doing when you don't know what they're saying? Maybe they looked shocked because one of them said "here is the place where I met that american guy last week" and then some guy walks up to them and announces his nationality for no apparent reason at all. |
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Css
Joined: 27 Sep 2004
Location: South of the river
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| Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
My Korean, beyond teaching terms and instructions, is crap, but I still love it when I've giving the impression that I understood whatever they were saying. I was recently walking past two elementary school girls and I heard Yogi blah blah blah Miguk-saram imnida blah blah blah and then turned around and corrected them. The expressions on their faces were priceless.
I also find it funny how, if they think you can't speak the language at all, drunken ajoshis will want you to come over and drink with them. |
Two middle school girls were using that level of respect with one another? |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Css wrote: |
| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
My Korean, beyond teaching terms and instructions, is crap, but I still love it when I've giving the impression that I understood whatever they were saying. I was recently walking past two elementary school girls and I heard Yogi blah blah blah Miguk-saram imnida blah blah blah and then turned around and corrected them. The expressions on their faces were priceless.
I also find it funny how, if they think you can't speak the language at all, drunken ajoshis will want you to come over and drink with them. |
Two middle school girls were using that level of respect with one another? |
I hear 'Miguk-saram imnida!' from kids all the time. At least I think that's what I'm hearing. And they were elementary. If they were middle school girls they would already know me.
And BB, I know all the foreigners in my town and there are no Miguks. |
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