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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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 Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 5:32 am Post subject: Fry me to the moon? |
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There's a Korean t.v. commercial on now that has the famous song sung by a Korean woman, only, she has trouble with her r/l.
Not one of my students, I'll tell you that.
The director's wife thinks I do too much pronunciation exercises. She doesn't understand how many words are misunderstood by that one little slippage, which she herself muddles most times too.
Other doosies in Korean media? Does it matter? |
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daskalos
Joined: 19 May 2006
Location: The Road to Ithaca
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| Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 5:46 am Post subject: |
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| Not Korea and not recently, but I once heard a lovely rendition in a piano bar of "Moon Liver." |
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dangsangirl
Joined: 27 May 2006
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| Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 8:48 am Post subject: |
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| Hee hee. I went to see a U2 tribute band and really liked their rendition of Erevation!!! |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 9:08 am Post subject: |
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And ret me pray among the stars
Ret me see what Spring is rike
On Jupiter and Mars
In udder words,
Horde my hand |
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JJK1
Joined: 22 May 2006
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| Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 9:22 am Post subject: |
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| Who cares. I'm sure you guys are able to pronounce Korean words without an accent |
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dangsangirl
Joined: 27 May 2006
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| Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 9:24 am Post subject: |
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Oh come on!! Calm down - it's a joke. I have no problem with Koreans laughing at me when I speak to them in Korean, in fact they do so to my face. Lighten up.  |
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daskalos
Joined: 19 May 2006
Location: The Road to Ithaca
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| Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 9:58 am Post subject: |
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| JJK1 wrote: |
| Who cares. I'm sure you guys are able to pronounce Korean words without an accent |
Being an excellent mimic, if I cared enough to learn Korean, I'd pass for native on the phone. And if I weren't an excellent mimic, I'd get over it, like maybe you should get over people laughing at the human condition. |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:41 am Post subject: |
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The host at Open Mike at the Big Electric Cat boasts that he can sing the chorus to John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Road" in Korean. Sorry I don't have Hangul on this computer.
Tekke me home,
Cuntly loads,
To de perrace
I be-wrong!
Wessuh Pageenia
Mountenna momma,
Tekke me home,
Cuntly loads. |
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JJK1
Joined: 22 May 2006
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| Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 10:49 am Post subject: |
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| daskalos wrote: |
| JJK1 wrote: |
| Who cares. I'm sure you guys are able to pronounce Korean words without an accent |
Being an excellent mimic, if I cared enough to learn Korean, I'd pass for native on the phone. And if I weren't an excellent mimic, I'd get over it, like maybe you should get over people laughing at the human condition. |
Yeah because learning Korean is such a waste of time, since you live in Korea and everything. |
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daskalos
Joined: 19 May 2006
Location: The Road to Ithaca
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| Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 11:12 am Post subject: |
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| JJK1 wrote: |
| daskalos wrote: |
| JJK1 wrote: |
| Who cares. I'm sure you guys are able to pronounce Korean words without an accent |
Being an excellent mimic, if I cared enough to learn Korean, I'd pass for native on the phone. And if I weren't an excellent mimic, I'd get over it, like maybe you should get over people laughing at the human condition. |
Yeah because learning Korean is such a waste of time, since you live in Korea and everything. |
I'll be gone in a year, two at most, so beyond the half dozen polite phrases, and since my inherent interest in the country/culture is middling, and since I have a rich inner life that occupies me fully, yeah, it would be a waste of time to learn a language I could in no way become fluent in during my time here and for which I'll have no use someday before too long. Thanks for asking. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 11:19 am Post subject: |
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| I've never been in a noraebang that didn't have (take me home) "Country Load" in the playlist. |
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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| JJK1 wrote: |
| Who cares. I'm sure you guys are able to pronounce Korean words without an accent |
Actually, you know, I think this is very good point. Turns out, compared to ther Asian languges, Korean is pretty easy to read to not very easy to pronounce correctly ...
Myself, after a a long time here, I'm still a little nervous I might mispronounce a word that later turns out to be a very rude one, just due to one wrong phoneme ... maybe we all should be that nervous. |
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Cerriowen
Joined: 03 Jun 2006
Location: Pocheon
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| Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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| I like it when the kids say they need to $h!+ on their $heet. |
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Asthenia
Joined: 15 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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| I heard that commercial and did a double-take. Since I've only seen it once, I thought I was imagining that she said "fry". Apparently not.. |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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| JongnoGuru wrote: |
And ret me pray among the stars
Ret me see what Spring is rike
On Jupiter and Mars
In udder words,
Horde my hand |
MAZ |
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