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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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 Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 3:48 pm Post subject: There Has Been a Revolution! |
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Old-time geezers will appreciate the significance of this. The word has been that the heat will not be turned on till December 1. Today is November 15. Yesterday was chilly in our building. Frosty would not be too far off.
So you can imagine my delight when I came in this morning and the Vice Principal pointed at the heating vent in the ceiling and smiled.
The heat is ON!!!
For people who are about to start their first winter in Korea: Normally, government buildings turn the heat on on December 1 and turn it off March 1. The temperature is considered an irrelevant factor. It's all government fiat. So, having heat on Nov. 15 is a major revolution of earth-shaking proportions. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Viva La Revolution!!! |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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| It's bloody freezing in school. The teachers' rooms are fine but elsewhere it feels like mid-winter. I don't see heaters anywhere either. The sudden change in temperature this week has done my head in. |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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The December 1 edict seems to be in place at out university, except for the classrooms- which are like saunas.  |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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| I swear these people were born in a tent. |
Ask a friend to translate this expression:
Hey, you! Do you have a long tail?
It's the Korean equivalent of "Were you born in a barn?" |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
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| I swear these people were born in a tent. |
Ask a friend to translate this expression:
Hey, you! Do you have a long tail?
It's the Korean equivalent of "Were you born in a barn?" |
Right, but it's not asking "Are you a barn animal?" but implying that you're trying not to close the door on your long tail. Or maybe both... |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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| trying not to close the door on your long tail |
I think that was appropriate because the previous poster was complaining that people are not closing the door. |
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kermo
Joined: 01 Sep 2004
Location: Eating eggs, with a comb, out of a shoe.
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| Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2005 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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| trying not to close the door on your long tail |
I think that was appropriate because the previous poster was complaining that people are not closing the door. |
Certainly. I wasn't trying to contradict, but to point out that the idiom may not be as rude as it sounds in this context. (I would hesitate before calling my co-workers barn animals.) Carry on... |
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Leslie Cheswyck
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile
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| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 12:30 am Post subject: |
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| We don't want to heat the whole neighborhood, do we? |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 12:40 am Post subject: |
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The revolution appears to be over. The mess has been cleaned up and no more foul language will be allowed. Move along now, there is nothing to see here, folks.  |
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rapier
Joined: 16 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 1:33 am Post subject: |
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| kermo wrote: |
| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
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| I swear these people were born in a tent. |
Ask a friend to translate this expression:
Hey, you! Do you have a long tail?
It's the Korean equivalent of "Were you born in a barn?" |
Right, but it's not asking "Are you a barn animal?" but implying that you're trying not to close the door on your long tail. Or maybe both... |
"Gori-ga-guelda"
="You have a long tail".
ie: you make a mess/knock things over wherever you go/you're clumsy.
Not: "remember to close the door". |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 5:23 am Post subject: |
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Not: "remember to close the door".
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MY Korean friend says it means, "Close the *&^($%# door!" |
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xtchr
Joined: 23 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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| It's Korea. Why close a door if you can SLAM it? |
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