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Rikus
Joined: 22 Apr 2005
Location: Seoul
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| The name Emma sounds like a word in korean that literaly means a women who likes to ride horses. However it is often takin to mean a women who likes sex. |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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Goodness, I can't imagine what would happen if one of my middle school girls came in with a nose ring and eyebrow ring. You teach in Korea? Mine aren't even allowed to have earings.
I think Bitbox is a really cool name. I worked with a Korean teacher named Lica. She got it because in high school her and her friends were Metalica fans and one took the name Meta and the other Lica. She was completely obvious to the connotations, of course.
Good on her though for showing a sense of individuality. The % of adult Koreans who'd do that is only about .001. |
I teach in Seoul. In some ways, I admire her guts, and I remember doing ridiculous things at that very age to "shake things up." As my gyopo friend exclaimed "OMG! She's so PUNK ROCK!"
This girl is doing her very best to stretch the boundaries of appropriate behaviour. She's sweet, but her pleas for attention are getting more and more obvious. Lately, she's started making random "raspberry" sounds during class. I ignore them completely. Her nose piercing, by the way, was discovered by Mom (or perhaps it was deliberately revealed) and has been removed. Last year, she tried a lip piercing. This poor kid is acquiring holes in her face faster than a suicidal squirrel with a machine gun. |
One of my high schoolers just got her ears pierced for her 19th birthday (18 western years) with the tiniest little neutral colour studs. So far she's been able to hide them with the right hair style, as she has to leave them in for a few weeks to start. The things you have to do to be rebellious in this country, lol.
But just think what your poor kid would have to do to be rebellious and get attention in Canada - why, to get noticed she'd have to walk around school with short bobbed hair, bangs, a dorky plaid skirt and waistcoat, ankle socks and slippers, and Hello Kitty sleeve protectors. |
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andrew
Joined: 30 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 8:54 pm Post subject: |
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periwinkle
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:08 am Post subject: |
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| At my first hakwon, there was a teacher who named all his kindy students after the Simpson's characters. Marge, Bart, Lisa. Grr- I can't remember the bartender's name.... |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:29 am Post subject: |
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| periwinkle wrote: |
| At my first hakwon, there was a teacher who named all his kindy students after the Simpson's characters. Marge, Bart, Lisa. Grr- I can't remember the bartender's name.... |
I think most hogwans have a Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. And a Kyle, Cartman, Kenny, and grrr., can't remember the other name.
The bartender's name is Moe, btw. |
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cutebecca
Joined: 08 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 6:04 am Post subject: |
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one of my private student's mom introduced herself as r/lania (r/l because of korean pronounciation, of course). i thought she meant her name was lana, and because of poor pronunciation it got mutilated to lania. at the end of each lesson, i write lania a note to tell her about her children's progress. "hi lania," i write.
after 1 month she wrote me a note: "my name is Rania, not Lania"
what kind of name is Rania? (pronounced ron-ya) |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 7:00 am Post subject: |
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| cutebecca wrote: |
one of my private student's mom introduced herself as r/lania (r/l because of korean pronounciation, of course). i thought she meant her name was lana, and because of poor pronunciation it got mutilated to lania. at the end of each lesson, i write lania a note to tell her about her children's progress. "hi lania," i write.
after 1 month she wrote me a note: "my name is Rania, not Lania"
what kind of name is Rania? (pronounced ron-ya) |
I was thinking of Tomb Raider, and suggested "Lara" until I realized that it would be rendered as "Rara" or "Lala." |
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Jeonnam Jinx
Joined: 06 Oct 2005
Location: Jeonnam
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:24 am Post subject: |
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| [ This poor kid is acquiring holes in her face faster than a suicidal squirrel with a machine gun. |
"A suicidal squirrel with a machine gun"?????????????????????
ROFL LOL! Good one.
I think the only strange name in my school is YODA. May the force be with him. |
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bobbyhanlon
Joined: 09 Nov 2003
Location: 서울
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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a place i used to work at had a tyrone, and a tupac.
also we had a 'cheers' theme with one class, hence a sam, a diane and a cliff; then one day this slow, fat kid walked through the door.. but destroying our opportunity for comedy gold, he rejected the name 'norm' right away. |
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baldrick
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: Location, Location
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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There's a student in another foreign teacher's class here who parents insisted on keeping the name Semon for their son. Originally it was pronounced with a long e, but thanksfully they were talked into a name that rhymes with lemon.
Other little girls here have names that I would only expect to find on old blue haired ladies - names like Esther, and Sophie. At least, those are very far from contemporary names at home. |
Are you serious?? My sister is called Sophie, she is 16. At the time of her birth it was quite a 'modern' name. Seriously, have you ever met any old women called sophie? Esther, yes. Sophie, no.
I've had some interesting ones over the last couple of years. 'number seven'. Sonic and Rocky. Snoopy. I once tagged along to a canon photo club meeting the first week I arrived in the ROK. Most of them were students who had given themselves bizarre names like 'innovation' or 'conscience'. |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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| There's an Esther Kim in my Korean class right now. |
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sarahsarah
Joined: 05 Aug 2004
Location: Bundang
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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I had so many students with off the wall names when I taught at a hagwon. For example ...
Legolas Aragorn Power Ranger Dinosaur (All one name)
KFC Lotteria Popeyes
Battle Cruiser
and my favorite ... Al Qaeda Edmond Steak
And about kids with piercings, I teach several at my high school. There are several nose and labret piercings, a tongue piercing and one cheek piercing. One even has a tattoo. Yeah, I guess my kids are just different. This defintely isn't a bad thing. |
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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
Location: Elsewhere
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 9:30 pm Post subject: |
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| The coolest sounding stupid English name I've seen to date belongs to a Taiwanese fellow named Toner Wang. It sounds so much like a surfer dude nickname for 'Anthony' that I knew him for more than a year before I realized he named himself after a laser printer refill. |
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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
Location: Elsewhere
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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| By the way, I have two kids who got tired of the names "Gary" and "Scooter" so I suggested (jokingly) "Duncan" and "Donut" -- now they refuse to be called anything else! |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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| sarahsarah wrote: |
I had so many students with off the wall names when I taught at a hagwon. For example ...
Legolas Aragorn Power Ranger Dinosaur (All one name)
KFC Lotteria Popeyes
Battle Cruiser
and my favorite ... Al Qaeda Edmond Steak
And about kids with piercings, I teach several at my high school. There are several nose and labret piercings, a tongue piercing and one cheek piercing. One even has a tattoo. Yeah, I guess my kids are just different. This definitely isn't a bad thing. |
One student, a rather nutty boy, had the name Eddie Chucky Jason. That last two coming from slasher films. Most Korean kids seem to be in love with the Chucky doll and the name.
Jill as discussed elsewhere is the Korean word for a lady's hoo hoo. Jack, I discovered, means "small" (jak da is to be small). |
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