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Alyallen
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
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 Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 7:13 pm Post subject: The root of all evil |
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Well....At least of one pet peeve of mine.
I always wondered why do dumb ass kids say "Hello, nice to meet you."
I bring proof of this annoying phenomenon's root.
Grade 4 Public school text.
Lesson 3: How old are you?
Listen and Repeat 1
#1 Julie's mom: Good morning.
Minsu, Julie: Good morning
Minsu: Nice to meet you.
Julie's mom: Nice to meet you too.
So, I asked my co-teacher if that dialogue makes sense in Korean and he said nope. So...where does this annoying little dialogue come from?
UNLESS: This is a common English language conversation piece I have managed to never hear or say in my whole life? |
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kat2
Joined: 25 Oct 2005
Location: Busan, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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I think thats every English teacher's pet peeve.
1) You can't say "nice to meet you" until you have introed yourself and you know each other's names!
2) Koreans have decided that "nice to meet you" equates with "pangabseumnida", which IT DOESN"T! Pangabseumnida is more like nice to see you.
3) #2 is why they say it all the time instead of only the first time they meet someone.
I"ve been teaching at my elementary school for nearly a year now and I still hear "nice to meet you" several times a day. UGH! |
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shantaram
Joined: 10 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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| You've got to love the acting ability of Julie's mom though. She tells it in her eyebrows- she wants to know who this weird kid on her lounge room floor is (subtext of "Nice to meeet yoouu") |
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Alyallen
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The 4th Greatest Place on Earth = Jeonju!!!
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| Posted: Tue May 01, 2007 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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| shantaram wrote: |
| You've got to love the acting ability of Julie's mom though. She tells it in her eyebrows- she wants to know who this weird kid on her lounge room floor is (subtext of "Nice to meeet yoouu") |
hahahahaha...that is true. And that dye job is truly spectacular!
Kat2 wrote:
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I think thats every English teacher's pet peeve.
1) You can't say "nice to meet you" until you have introed yourself and you know each other's names!
2) Koreans have decided that "nice to meet you" equates with "pangabseumnida", which IT DOESN"T! Pangabseumnida is more like nice to see you.
3) #2 is why they say it all the time instead of only the first time they meet someone.
I"ve been teaching at my elementary school for nearly a year now and I still hear "nice to meet you" several times a day. UGH! |
That's sorta weird. I asked my co-teacher about that. And he said in the situation given in the book, you wouldn't say that in Korean. So he thought that dialogue made no sense either....
I've also modeled that situation with students and asked them if it makde sense and they said no. My students make fun of that phrase actually. They sometimes will say to me "Hi, Teacher. Nice to meet you" and I give them this look of "I'm going to murder you" and then they laugh and run away.
So weird... But there are many more roots of evil in those stupid public school books...I'm sure it would make for one hell of a thread. |
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