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mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

We use English names. When I get a new student I try to cook up an English name fairly close to their Korean name. Lots of Korean names have Js. Lots of Korean Jennys and Joyces...

Anyway, this one girl's name seemed reasonable close to Jill. Jack and Jill. So I called her Jill. Some of the kids found this hillarious. Kids from other classes would approach me "Do you know Jill?" and snicker.

I wrote �� on a piece of paper and asked my Korean boss if "jil" meant anything weird in Korean, telling her I called a student "Jill" and it produced a weird effect.

"Oh dear, �� is the Korean word for v agina."

Christ.

PolyChronic Time Girl · Joined: 15 Dec 2004 Location: Korea Exited

I have heard the same thing as calling any 'George' student "Georgie-Porgie." It's a famous rhyme, "Georgie-Porgie" but in Korean, "porgie" also comes close to vagina.

Tiny_Tibbo · Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Location: In My Skin

why did they let me call one girl that for a whole month??....now i know why they changed her name....lol

SuperHero · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Location: Superhero Hideout

As soon as I saw the title for this thread I started chuckling...

Len8 · Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Location: Kyungju

Never call a girl Judy either. That's the Korean slang for lips. I think they actually stretch it to Judoongie sometimes.

inthewild · Joined: 28 Mar 2004 Location: Korea

And what does �� mean?

the_beaver · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

thekingofdisco · Joined: 29 Oct 2004

�� means whatever, or talk to the hand (that's the closest trans. I know). Only the kids use it though.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

Derrek · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

Hoo Hoo?

Tiny_Tibbo · Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Location: In My Skin

wow!!! why didn't anyone stop me?? Shocked

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

No boy wants to be "Mitch" either. Recently kids laughed reading the name "Mrs. Mitchell"

tomato · Posted: Sat Apr 23, 2005 8:16 am Post subject:

�� is a girl's name, so I wouldn't name a boy Eugene.
�� is a boy's name, so I wouldn't name a girl Jean.

Since �ظ� is a girl's name, I would be afraid to name a boy Harry.
Anyway, there is a boy named Harry in our school, and everyone is busy calling him Harry Potter.

I once had a girl named �ظ�, so I named her Harriet.
I once got in trouble for that, because �� is a naughty word.

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

I thought "��" was tha sweet hard traditional candy.

And why do you see "�� Ծ�" as a translation for " F +++ you" and other nastiness on movies, but Koreans never say it.

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004