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aldershot
Joined: 17 Jul 2006
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 Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 8:07 pm Post subject: Are you getting dumber? |
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After living in Korea for a few years, I've noticed my English is in the decline. I find myself fishing for adjectives in normal conversation where before I was a virtual thesaurus. I wonder what is happening. Is it age? I think one reason may be that I've grown incredibly accostumed to speaking baby-English to students/ korean friends, that I haven't been excersizing the creative-language muscle in my brain. I honestly feel dumber. Anybody else on the language decline?
Or is it the farking soju? Pistons in the brain are burnt and gone forever... |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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| A few friends, a quality beer, and an update on the new slang will have you up and running again in a week or so when you get back home. |
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Horangi Munshin
Joined: 06 Apr 2003
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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| My speling has got worse. |
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formerflautist
Joined: 30 May 2006
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| Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes. I'm afraid to e-mail my English teacher mother for fear of her wrath. |
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Doogie
Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Location: Hwaseong City
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| Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 10:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Huh? I don't understand the question. |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 2:36 am Post subject: |
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| I refuse to answer on the grounds that I might incriminate myself. |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 3:04 am Post subject: |
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| Yeah, but everyone else seems to be gettin' dumber at a faster rate - so I'm doin' relatively OK ... |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 3:19 am Post subject: |
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Feel my intellect & general spiritual well-being has been improving since i stopped watching CABLE TV.
Internet addiction could just as easily apply. |
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captain kirk
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 3:25 am Post subject: |
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| Ah, I agree. I have had the tv be what it is, a black plastic box. And without power, hahaha! I have that tv hostage and silent. So it preys not on my brain.... |
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Sleepy in Seoul
Joined: 15 May 2004
Location: Going in ever decreasing circles until I eventually disappear up my own fundament - in NZ
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| Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 3:46 am Post subject: |
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| During my first year here, I found that I was rapidly forgetting often-used words, so I had friends from home send me cryptic crosswords and word puzzles from my home newspaper. It worked a treat and I still have a wee stockpile of them that I am doling out to myself. They are great for doing on the subway and when travelling. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 3:56 am Post subject: |
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Less t.v., more reading, yet still the words slip away.
| igotthisguitar wrote: |
| Internet addiction could just as easily apply. |
Dave's makes us university grads dumber. It's the only explanation. |
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Hapkido-In
Joined: 24 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Living in Korea does take a bit of a toll on your English. Don't worry about it, though, it's just like riding a bike. |
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djsmnc
Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Dave's ESL Cafe
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| Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2006 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Hapkido-In wrote: |
| ...it's just like riding a bike. |
You are referring to the fact that some bicycle seats have the potential to cause impotence? What's the connection? |
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Hapkido-In
Joined: 24 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 4:34 am Post subject: |
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Actually I was referring to how it chaffes the thighs after prolonged periods of use.
^^
That's a Korean Happy Face! |
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Cerriowen
Joined: 03 Jun 2006
Location: Pocheon
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| Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2006 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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Totally.
I'm forgetting the names of things (like... subway), and using the present simple for everything. |
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