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Mankind · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

2 Years ago I was walkining down the street with my mother (day before my wedding) and some kid yelled '*beep* you' across the street at her and laughed with his friends. He was with about 8 friends, they were about 12-14 I guess. I walked across the street grabbed the kid by the throat and punched him in the side of the head and knocked him out. His friends Shocked

My guess is that there are about 8 less kids in Korea who will say that.

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Ryst Helmut · Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2004 8:27 pm Post subject:

baldrick · Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Location: Location, Location

Kim Jong Jordon

Please change your Avatar - its making me feel ill.

Zenpickle · Joined: 06 Jan 2004 Location: Anyang -- Bisan

A few thoughts...

For one thing, I'd be impressed if they pronounced their "F" properly when they said it. Other than that, I have gone very grave and scolded children when they used the F-word in class. It's only happened to me twice and in the same class.

An amusing book that is out there for teaching Koreans American slang is "F*cking Spoken English." It has dialogue from "Sex and the City" and "The Matrix," explaining what they mean.

The worst problem we've had with our kindies saying inappropriate things was when they started chanting, "Oh, oh, pantyshow!" This was nothing until parents started complaining. So in my classes, I replaced "Oh, oh, pantyshow" with "Mekka lekka hi, mekka heiny ho!"

Alias · Joined: 24 Jan 2003

Just imagine how many times you get sworn at in Korean!

Blind Willie · Joined: 05 May 2004

I stopped taking my kids to see the boss on the rare occasions I do get the smirk and the finger.

I started grabbing them by the hand and rapping their knuckles like the teachers of olde. They quickly stop. It's also freed me from tong chims and getting my equipment grabbed and yanked.