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stevenisi
Joined: 17 Jul 2006
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 Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 3:06 pm Post subject: Is your Korean that good to know if you're spoken to rudely? |
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Proper usage of the honorific versus casual form involve subtle interplays of heirarchy.
Unless you're a native Korean speaker, I wouldn't make any type of judgment whatsoever about the speaker, unless they curse you out (unless they use the honorific, then it's okay)
Quick related joke:
True story (from 상상+ )
A Korean guy his first time in Las Vegas, first time in the US, gets into an elevator with just him and a black dude.
After a couple of seconds of awkward silence, the African American gentleman states to him, "Hit 4". Never having seen a brother man, and not knowing what he meant, he proceeds to pound his head into the side of the elevator wall four times and walks out.
Later in the day, he receives a bouquet of flowers with a card that read
"Thanks.. That's the funniest thing I ever saw.." signed Eddie Murphy |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 3:23 pm Post subject: Re: Is your Korean that good to know if you're spoken to rud |
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| stevenisi wrote: |
Proper usage of the honorific versus casual form involve subtle interplays of heirarchy.
Unless you're a native Korean speaker, I wouldn't make any type of judgment whatsoever about the speaker, unless they curse you out (unless they use the honorific, then it's okay)
Quick related joke:
True story (from 상상+ )
A Korean guy his first time in Las Vegas, first time in the US, gets into an elevator with just him and a black dude.
After a couple of seconds of awkward silence, the African American gentleman states to him, "Hit 4". Never having seen a brother man, and not knowing what he meant, he proceeds to pound his head into the side of the elevator wall four times and walks out.
Later in the day, he receives a bouquet of flowers with a card that read
"Thanks.. That's the funniest thing I ever saw.." signed Eddie Murphy |
i wonder what snopes said about that story, since i heard it about 10 years ago. girl says "my friend was in a hotel, and all these big black guys got in the neighborhood. one of them said "hit the floor" and she dove down, prone on the floor". the next day there were flowers in her room... |
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stevenisi
Joined: 17 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 3:25 pm Post subject: |
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freaky coincidence..
either that or the comedians on 상상+ recycled the joke |
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dogbert
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210
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| Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 6:30 pm Post subject: |
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I agree with the OP.
When I first heard that joke, it was Reggie Jackson getting on the elevator with his dog, then saying "Sit, Whitey!", whereupon a group of elderly white women dropped to the floor, fearing God knows what.
(Jackson's dog, see, was named "Whitey"). |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 7:47 pm Post subject: |
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| dogbert wrote: |
I agree with the OP.
When I first heard that joke, it was Reggie Jackson getting on the elevator with his dog, then saying "Sit, Whitey!", whereupon a group of elderly white women dropped to the floor, fearing God knows what.
(Jackson's dog, see, was named "Whitey"). |
and the time tupac shakur was in an elevator with his female golden retriever who had just had puppies. he decided to give her a snack from a pack of weiners he carried in his jacket pocket.
imagine the surprise of the lone, female elevator patron when she heard "oh yeah, nibble that sausage, b*tch". |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 8:08 pm Post subject: |
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| stevenisi wrote: |
freaky coincidence..
either that or the comedians on 상상+ recycled the joke |
I guess 상상 isn't so imaginative after all.. |
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