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D.D.
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 Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 12:39 am Post subject: Koreans using English |
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In the future will speaking English be a skill needed by a large number of Koreans?
My feeling is that by 2015-2020 that globalization will be to the point where a high number of people speak English as their work language.
What are your views on this?
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harlowethrombey
Joined: 17 Mar 2009
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 12:49 am Post subject: |
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by 2015 the entire world will be a bankrupt, have a global temp average of 45 celsius and the only people left will be roving bands of roadgangers who hide in the shade during the day and come out at night to prey on farmers and steal their gas. Also, the pope will have converted to Scientology and the only safe haven will be a glass-shell sealed city state of Eugene, Oregon where the priveleged live in massive, solar powered skyscrapers and most of the dregs of the city live in a perpetaul fog of smog that always hovers around the base of the skyscrapers.
Then, one day a leader will rise from the downtrodden and lead his filthy, unwashed brethern in an uprising to overthrow the ruling elite. But, even after the mighty city is under their control, a vertibale horde of mutated bikers will ride out from the Utah Badlands on a mission of conquest and slaughter.
After the days-long siege has concluded our descendents will find themselves facing a new, terrifying foe as the super-advanced KOrean hand phones have gained sentience and are now absorbing and enslaving all organic life forms.
The phones begin to use their fantastic technology to replicate bio-cyborg dinosaurs and the leaders of Eugene find themselves having to ally with the same mutant biker gangs they were fighting against.
Thus, by 2019 there will be a war between evolved cell phones and their cyborg dinosaur attack squads and mutant biker gangs.
And most of them will speak English.
There you go.
also, this thread should be in 'general discussion' or 'off-topic' |
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nourozi
Joined: 15 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 1:19 am Post subject: |
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| harlowethrombey wrote: |
by 2015 the entire world will be a bankrupt, have a global temp average of 45 celsius and the only people left will be roving bands of roadgangers who hide in the shade during the day and come out at night to prey on farmers and steal their gas. Also, the pope will have converted to Scientology and the only safe haven will be a glass-shell sealed city state of Eugene, Oregon where the priveleged live in massive, solar powered skyscrapers and most of the dregs of the city live in a perpetaul fog of smog that always hovers around the base of the skyscrapers.
Then, one day a leader will rise from the downtrodden and lead his filthy, unwashed brethern in an uprising to overthrow the ruling elite. But, even after the mighty city is under their control, a vertibale horde of mutated bikers will ride out from the Utah Badlands on a mission of conquest and slaughter.
After the days-long siege has concluded our descendents will find themselves facing a new, terrifying foe as the super-advanced KOrean hand phones have gained sentience and are now absorbing and enslaving all organic life forms.
The phones begin to use their fantastic technology to replicate bio-cyborg dinosaurs and the leaders of Eugene find themselves having to ally with the same mutant biker gangs they were fighting against.
Thus, by 2019 there will be a war between evolved cell phones and their cyborg dinosaur attack squads and mutant biker gangs.
And most of them will speak English.
There you go.
also, this thread should be in 'general discussion' or 'off-topic' |
Well it seems ON TOPIC now. |
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harlowethrombey
Joined: 17 Mar 2009
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 1:25 am Post subject: |
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| nourozi wrote: |
| harlowethrombey wrote: |
by 2015 the entire world will be a bankrupt, have a global temp average of 45 celsius and the only people left will be roving bands of roadgangers who hide in the shade during the day and come out at night to prey on farmers and steal their gas. Also, the pope will have converted to Scientology and the only safe haven will be a glass-shell sealed city state of Eugene, Oregon where the priveleged live in massive, solar powered skyscrapers and most of the dregs of the city live in a perpetaul fog of smog that always hovers around the base of the skyscrapers.
Then, one day a leader will rise from the downtrodden and lead his filthy, unwashed brethern in an uprising to overthrow the ruling elite. But, even after the mighty city is under their control, a vertibale horde of mutated bikers will ride out from the Utah Badlands on a mission of conquest and slaughter.
After the days-long siege has concluded our descendents will find themselves facing a new, terrifying foe as the super-advanced KOrean hand phones have gained sentience and are now absorbing and enslaving all organic life forms.
The phones begin to use their fantastic technology to replicate bio-cyborg dinosaurs and the leaders of Eugene find themselves having to ally with the same mutant biker gangs they were fighting against.
Thus, by 2019 there will be a war between evolved cell phones and their cyborg dinosaur attack squads and mutant biker gangs.
And most of them will speak English.
There you go.
also, this thread should be in 'general discussion' or 'off-topic' |
Well it seems ON TOPIC now. |
And right after the the freedom fighters strike the final blow at the heart of the hand phone mainframe that's when, again Pulgasari shows up. This giant, metal-eating behemoth begins to lay waste to the mutant roadgangers and humanity finds it must flee beneath the ocean for survival.
Once ensconced underwater, in domed eco-habitats, the survivors encounter the descendents of long-lost Atlantis who also, coincidentally, speak perfect British English. Their leader, who looks a lot like Sean Connery, invites the survivors to travel through a portal to a new, Pulgasari free dimension.
As the last of our descendents step through the portal, onto a barren wasteland on the 3rd moon of the 3rd constellation in the 3rd solar system in the Andromeda Galaxy, that's when the adventure truly begins. . . |
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Kimchieluver
Joined: 02 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 1:58 am Post subject: |
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| harlowethrombey wrote: |
by 2015 the entire world will be a bankrupt, have a global temp average of 45 celsius and the only people left will be roving bands of roadgangers who hide in the shade during the day and come out at night to prey on farmers and steal their gas. Also, the pope will have converted to Scientology and the only safe haven will be a glass-shell sealed city state of Eugene, Oregon where the priveleged live in massive, solar powered skyscrapers and most of the dregs of the city live in a perpetaul fog of smog that always hovers around the base of the skyscrapers.
Then, one day a leader will rise from the downtrodden and lead his filthy, unwashed brethern in an uprising to overthrow the ruling elite. But, even after the mighty city is under their control, a vertibale horde of mutated bikers will ride out from the Utah Badlands on a mission of conquest and slaughter.
After the days-long siege has concluded our descendents will find themselves facing a new, terrifying foe as the super-advanced KOrean hand phones have gained sentience and are now absorbing and enslaving all organic life forms.
The phones begin to use their fantastic technology to replicate bio-cyborg dinosaurs and the leaders of Eugene find themselves having to ally with the same mutant biker gangs they were fighting against.
Thus, by 2019 there will be a war between evolved cell phones and their cyborg dinosaur attack squads and mutant biker gangs.
And most of them will speak English.
There you go.
also, this thread should be in 'general discussion' or 'off-topic' |
Your idea of the future lost all credibility and probability when you mentioned that the Pope will convert to scientlogy. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 3:55 am Post subject: Re: Koreans using English |
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| D.D. wrote: |
In the future will speaking English be a skill needed by a large number of Koreans?
My feeling is that by 2015-2020 that globalization will be to the point where a high number of people speak English as their work language.
What are you views on this? |
I disagree. In 6 years or so, 1% or so of Koreans will need to speak English on a daily basis; a few more will need to speak it a few times a month. The rest, the vast majority, will never need it unless they travel outside Korea. |
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harlowethrombey
Joined: 17 Mar 2009
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:59 am Post subject: |
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| Kimchieluver wrote: |
| harlowethrombey wrote: |
by 2015 the entire world will be a bankrupt, have a global temp average of 45 celsius and the only people left will be roving bands of roadgangers who hide in the shade during the day and come out at night to prey on farmers and steal their gas. Also, the pope will have converted to Scientology and the only safe haven will be a glass-shell sealed city state of Eugene, Oregon where the priveleged live in massive, solar powered skyscrapers and most of the dregs of the city live in a perpetaul fog of smog that always hovers around the base of the skyscrapers.
Then, one day a leader will rise from the downtrodden and lead his filthy, unwashed brethern in an uprising to overthrow the ruling elite. But, even after the mighty city is under their control, a vertibale horde of mutated bikers will ride out from the Utah Badlands on a mission of conquest and slaughter.
After the days-long siege has concluded our descendents will find themselves facing a new, terrifying foe as the super-advanced KOrean hand phones have gained sentience and are now absorbing and enslaving all organic life forms.
The phones begin to use their fantastic technology to replicate bio-cyborg dinosaurs and the leaders of Eugene find themselves having to ally with the same mutant biker gangs they were fighting against.
Thus, by 2019 there will be a war between evolved cell phones and their cyborg dinosaur attack squads and mutant biker gangs.
And most of them will speak English.
There you go.
also, this thread should be in 'general discussion' or 'off-topic' |
Your idea of the future lost all credibility and probability when you mentioned that the Pope will convert to scientlogy. |
but you think the mutant biker gangs is spot on?  |
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goodsounz
Joined: 09 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 7:42 am Post subject: |
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| i'm not sure about Utah being the origin of the mutated bikers though...I was thinking they would probably come from a land down under...can you hear the thunder... |
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poet13
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
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| Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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| They're Mormon bikers. |
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harlowethrombey
Joined: 17 Mar 2009
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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| poet13 wrote: |
| They're Mormon bikers. |
exactly.
Angry, mutated mormon bikers on a rampage, guzzling beer with 1% alcohol, picking up as many underaged wives as they can stick on the back of their bikes and bashing gays. |
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harlowethrombey
Joined: 17 Mar 2009
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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| harlowethrombey wrote: |
| nourozi wrote: |
| harlowethrombey wrote: |
by 2015 the entire world will be a bankrupt, have a global temp average of 45 celsius and the only people left will be roving bands of roadgangers who hide in the shade during the day and come out at night to prey on farmers and steal their gas. Also, the pope will have converted to Scientology and the only safe haven will be a glass-shell sealed city state of Eugene, Oregon where the priveleged live in massive, solar powered skyscrapers and most of the dregs of the city live in a perpetaul fog of smog that always hovers around the base of the skyscrapers.
Then, one day a leader will rise from the downtrodden and lead his filthy, unwashed brethern in an uprising to overthrow the ruling elite. But, even after the mighty city is under their control, a vertibale horde of mutated bikers will ride out from the Utah Badlands on a mission of conquest and slaughter.
After the days-long siege has concluded our descendents will find themselves facing a new, terrifying foe as the super-advanced KOrean hand phones have gained sentience and are now absorbing and enslaving all organic life forms.
The phones begin to use their fantastic technology to replicate bio-cyborg dinosaurs and the leaders of Eugene find themselves having to ally with the same mutant biker gangs they were fighting against.
Thus, by 2019 there will be a war between evolved cell phones and their cyborg dinosaur attack squads and mutant biker gangs.
And most of them will speak English.
There you go.
also, this thread should be in 'general discussion' or 'off-topic' |
Well it seems ON TOPIC now. |
And right after the the freedom fighters strike the final blow at the heart of the hand phone mainframe that's when, again Pulgasari shows up. This giant, metal-eating behemoth begins to lay waste to the mutant roadgangers and humanity finds it must flee beneath the ocean for survival.
Once ensconced underwater, in domed eco-habitats, the survivors encounter the descendents of long-lost Atlantis who also, coincidentally, speak perfect British English. Their leader, who looks a lot like Sean Connery, invites the survivors to travel through a portal to a new, Pulgasari free dimension.
As the last of our descendents step through the portal, onto a barren wasteland on the 3rd moon of the 3rd constellation in the 3rd solar system in the Andromeda Galaxy, that's when the adventure truly begins. . . |
The settlers, or The First, as they came to be known, called their harsh new homeworld Vulcan Arcanis brought to you by Pepsi. Because marketing and Pepsi not only survived the apocalypse, they made money off it (every nuclear-tipped warhead was a special offer brought to you by Halliburton and Burger King).
The First recreated the rudiments of human civilization while always fighting against the harsh environment of their world. Daily dustorms the size of Pittsburgh tore over the planet's surface while tidal waves the size of Adelaide broke through levies and meteors the size of Haverfordwest rained down on their settlements.
After many generations of hardship and struggles, the humans built a solid granite city with many reaching towers. Although some people, let's say the descendents of the biker gangs, thought the towers looked too phallic and were offended. They maintained that their children should not see such things so they decided to kill everyone who didnt agree with them to spare the children the horror of *beep*-shaped towers.
To adapt to the harsh new world, The First had genetically modified their descendents so even the most mundane human possessed superstrength and possibly telekinesis, a healing factor or even Dazzler's worthless 'sound into light' power.
The mutant biker descendents were even further mutated by the genetic tinkering, resulting in half-man, half-beast monsters possessing sythe-like claws, shark-teeeth filled maws and very, very hairy backs.
The resulting civil war burned the crystal city to the ground. Everwhere, shards of crystals crashed down on mutant werebeasts battling against super-powered accountants.
When the dust settled, the werebeasts had been exiled to the northern wastelands, known as The Valley of Moaning Daggers while the victorious superhumans decided they liked the feeing of conquest and turned their gaze heavenwards to the nearest peaceful planet. You may know it as 'Earth'. . . .duh, duh, duh!!!!!!!!!  |
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goodsounz
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| Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 6:15 am Post subject: |
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| ahhh so in the future we won't even need to speak (or am I getting "telekinesis" mixed up with telepathy?) That would mean the mutants would mutate into a quiet race thus eliminating the need for languages? (enjoying this...it could be the start of the next star trek generation) |
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Nierlisse
Joined: 11 Oct 2008
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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| I guess I should start hoarding bottlecaps sooner rather than later... |
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harlowethrombey
Joined: 17 Mar 2009
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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| goodsounz wrote: |
| ahhh so in the future we won't even need to speak (or am I getting "telekinesis" mixed up with telepathy?) That would mean the mutants would mutate into a quiet race thus eliminating the need for languages? (enjoying this...it could be the start of the next star trek generation) |
And telepathy (why not?)
There were also shapeshifters but they could only transform into small, hairless dogs thus limiting their effectiveness. No dragons, no gargoyles or lions, just small, hairless dogs.  |
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QbertP
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| Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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| harsh new homeworld Vulcan Arcanis brought to you by Pepsi |
Brought to you by carl's junior. |
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