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Morton
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 Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 10:16 pm Post subject: My baby class |
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I have a class that is young elementary kids. They are exhausting but lots of fun.
Today i was reviewing some actions and one of them was 'hit'. I did an action of me hitting a ball with my hand in the last lesson but today i didn't take a ball. Instead i pretended that there was a ball there and made a hitting motion. Most kids said 'hit' but one kid shouted 'appa'. 
I moved swiftly on. |
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Faunaki
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| Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:01 am Post subject: pot |
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| When I was a kid in kindergarten, we had a talk about smoking and some of the moms were there, including my own. The teacher asked us kids is we knew of anyone who smoked and I readily piped up, "My dad smokes pot!" |
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Return Jones
Joined: 06 Feb 2004
Location: I will see you in far-off places
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| Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:25 am Post subject: Re: My baby class |
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| Morton wrote: |
I have a class that is young elementary kids. They are exhausting but lots of fun.
Today i was reviewing some actions and one of them was 'hit'. I did an action of me hitting a ball with my hand in the last lesson but today i didn't take a ball. Instead i pretended that there was a ball there and made a hitting motion. Most kids said 'hit' but one kid shouted 'appa'.
I moved swiftly on. |
아파 appa means "it hurts" while 아빠 aPPa means "daddy". They sound almost the same. He was just joking as if he was being hit. Not likely a reference to his dad. |
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Samantha
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
Location: Jinan-dong Hwaseong
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| Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:49 am Post subject: Re: My baby class |
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| Return Jones wrote: |
| Morton wrote: |
I have a class that is young elementary kids. They are exhausting but lots of fun.
Today i was reviewing some actions and one of them was 'hit'. I did an action of me hitting a ball with my hand in the last lesson but today i didn't take a ball. Instead i pretended that there was a ball there and made a hitting motion. Most kids said 'hit' but one kid shouted 'appa'.
I moved swiftly on. |
아파 appa means "it hurts" while 아빠 aPPa means "daddy". They sound almost the same. He was just joking as if he was being hit. Not likely a reference to his dad. |
Isn't it 아포 (or Ahpo at least sound-wise) for pain? Joking about being smacked around by their dad? That's probably true to an extent...look at what some of the teachers pull off, smacking kids on the head with books, pulling their ears, smacking them on the backside with wooden boards. Corporeal punishment is alive and well here.   |
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jvalmer
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| Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:17 am Post subject: Re: My baby class |
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| Samantha wrote: |
| Return Jones wrote: |
| 아파 appa means "it hurts" while 아빠 aPPa means "daddy". They sound almost the same. He was just joking as if he was being hit. Not likely a reference to his dad. |
Isn't it 아포 (or Ahpo at least sound-wise) for pain? Joking about being smacked around by their dad? That's probably true to an extent...look at what some of the teachers pull off, smacking kids on the head with books, pulling their ears, smacking them on the backside with wooden boards. Corporeal punishment is alive and well here. |
Although 아포 (Ahpo) is the standard word for pain, colloquially 아파 (appa) is a common subsitute for 아포 (Ahpo). |
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Ginormousaurus
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:19 am Post subject: Re: My baby class |
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| jvalmer wrote: |
| Samantha wrote: |
| Return Jones wrote: |
| ?? appa means "it hurts" while ?? aPPa means "daddy". They sound almost the same. He was just joking as if he was being hit. Not likely a reference to his dad. |
Isn't it ?? (or Ahpo at least sound-wise) for pain? Joking about being smacked around by their dad? That's probably true to an extent...look at what some of the teachers pull off, smacking kids on the head with books, pulling their ears, smacking them on the backside with wooden boards. Corporeal punishment is alive and well here. |
Although ?? (Ahpo) is the standard word for pain, colloquially ?? (appa) is a common subsitute for ?? (Ahpo). |
Return Jones is correct. |
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Samantha
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
Location: Jinan-dong Hwaseong
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| Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:23 am Post subject: Re: My baby class |
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| Ginormousaurus wrote: |
| jvalmer wrote: |
| Samantha wrote: |
| Return Jones wrote: |
| ?? appa means "it hurts" while ?? aPPa means "daddy". They sound almost the same. He was just joking as if he was being hit. Not likely a reference to his dad. |
Isn't it ?? (or Ahpo at least sound-wise) for pain? Joking about being smacked around by their dad? That's probably true to an extent...look at what some of the teachers pull off, smacking kids on the head with books, pulling their ears, smacking them on the backside with wooden boards. Corporeal punishment is alive and well here. |
Although ?? (Ahpo) is the standard word for pain, colloquially ?? (appa) is a common subsitute for ?? (Ahpo). |
Return Jones is correct. |
Ok I was wondering, I stand corrected. The only word I know for pain is 아포. |
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Return Jones
Joined: 06 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:27 am Post subject: Re: My baby class |
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| Samantha wrote: |
| Return Jones wrote: |
| Morton wrote: |
I have a class that is young elementary kids. They are exhausting but lots of fun.
Today i was reviewing some actions and one of them was 'hit'. I did an action of me hitting a ball with my hand in the last lesson but today i didn't take a ball. Instead i pretended that there was a ball there and made a hitting motion. Most kids said 'hit' but one kid shouted 'appa'.
I moved swiftly on. |
아파 appa means "it hurts" while 아빠 aPPa means "daddy". They sound almost the same. He was just joking as if he was being hit. Not likely a reference to his dad. |
Isn't it 아포 (or Ahpo at least sound-wise) for pain? Joking about being smacked around by their dad? That's probably true to an extent...look at what some of the teachers pull off, smacking kids on the head with books, pulling their ears, smacking them on the backside with wooden boards. Corporeal punishment is alive and well here. |
In slang or kidspeak, yes, they sometimes say it like "ahpoh", but "appa" (아프다 infinitive form) is the correct word and pronunciation. Some kids say "anjoh" for sit down when it is actually "anja".
Anyway, let's hope the kid really was just joking about the teacher's hitting motion and the OP simply misinterpreted. |
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Morton
Joined: 06 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:43 am Post subject: |
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| If you read the original post i never gave a interpretation of what my student said. |
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Samantha
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
Location: Jinan-dong Hwaseong
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| Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:54 am Post subject: |
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| Morton wrote: |
| If you read the original post i never gave a interpretation of what my student said. |
Your right you didn't say what you interpreted the child's response to mean. You did say though that several students said "hit" which was the target response, and one child said "appa". As others have said "appa" can be a pronunciation twist on either 'father' or 'pain', at this point you said you moved on with a shame/embarrassed smiley. This combination would lead most people to think you took the child's comment in a negative meaning.
Were we wrong to follow this line of thinking? What was your interpretation of the coment? |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:10 pm Post subject: |
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They should say appayo when speaking to you, but I guess if you're at an elementary hagwon your status is that of a peer...
At middle school I'd imagine that miming that would solicit guesses of 'seonsaengnim'. |
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