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northway
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 Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 5:59 am Post subject: "Dear." Mr. ________ - where is this error coming |
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| The Korean staff of the company I work for always start emails with "Dear. Northway". At first I thought it was just one person, but there are a number of them that make this mistake. Does anyone know where it's coming from? A failing of a standardized English exam, perhaps? Where did they get the idea to put the period right after "dear"? It really begs the question of whether they understand periods at all. |
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FriendlyDaegu
Joined: 26 Aug 2012
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| Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 7:20 am Post subject: Re: "Dear." Mr. ________ - where is this error com |
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| northway wrote: |
| It really begs the question of whether they understand… |
Hmm. |
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Joe Boxer
Joined: 25 Dec 2007
Location: Bundang, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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I have a couple questions too.
Why do Koreans write e-mails like this?
They start a new line for each sentence.
Didn't any of you teach them how to use a paragraph?
And using "..." and "!!!" and "^^" constantly is... childish/improper/unprofessional!!!;;;; ^^ ;;;;; !!! ^^ (lol wtf)
Also, who taught older Koreans to write a "9" like a "P"?
And who taught them dot their "i" before they print the bottom part?
The kids draw the top part of the capital "J" before drawing the bottom part.
And the kids draw their lower-case "f" like a limp, lower-case "t". |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2014 11:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Joe Boxer wrote: |
...Also, who taught older Koreans to write a "9" like a "P"?
And who taught them dot their "i" before they print the bottom part?
The kids draw the top part of the capital "J" before drawing the bottom part... |
The korean 9, no idea.
The i's & j's, thats easily explicable. Hangeul is all top down.
A lot of Korean kids (especially girls) write their english beautifully. Well, print it actually, but with nice penmanship.
[Note how they tend to hold their pencils differently than we were taught to, too.] |
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Joe Boxer
Joined: 25 Dec 2007
Location: Bundang, South Korea
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| Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 4:43 am Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
The i's & j's, thats easily explicable. Hangeul is all top down.
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Oh yeah.
I should have known that, since I'll be doing plenty of top-down writing tomorrow, on the TOPIK  |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Sat Oct 11, 2014 8:01 am Post subject: |
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| I've also noticed a tendency to put a space before using punctuation, which I really don't get considering that hangeul uses periods too, also sans space. |
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SeoulNate
Joined: 04 Jun 2010
Location: Hyehwa
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Joe Boxer wrote: |
I have a couple questions too.
Why do Koreans write e-mails like this?
They start a new line for each sentence.
Didn't any of you teach them how to use a paragraph?
And using "..." and "!!!" and "^^" constantly is... childish/improper/unprofessional!!!;;;; ^^ ;;;;; !!! ^^ (lol wtf)
Also, who taught older Koreans to write a "9" like a "P"?
And who taught them dot their "i" before they print the bottom part?
The kids draw the top part of the capital "J" before drawing the bottom part.
And the kids draw their lower-case "f" like a limp, lower-case "t". |
Actually asked my fiancée about the emailing line by line thing (not just emails by the way, they do it for everything) and she said that it just 'looks better' and is easier to read.
I had a hell of a time explaining to her that it made the writing seem really organized and actually make it more confusing to an English speaker due to the lack of natural organization provided by paragraphs.
This is just a guess, but it could come from the Korean tendency to start a new line/paragraph when they change subjects (as in Subject in the sentence, not the topic). Since every English sentence includes a subject, they feel obliged to go to a new line. |
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atwood
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2014 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Someone. probably. saw. what. was. a. mistake. of. some. sort. or. the. other. and. thought. it. looked. good. and. started. doing. it. and. it. caught. on. |
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