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xeno439
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 Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 4:51 am Post subject: Rock, Scissors, Paper? |
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Why is it that almost 100% of Koreans that know the English for the game think the order is Rock, Scissors, Paper?
I always remember it being rock, paper, scissors.
I search Google for "Rock scissors paper" and the first result confirms what I already knew (but was beginning to question), that the order is indeed: Rock, Paper, Scissors.
Is this perhaps an English, Australian, or some other English speaking country that is not America, word order?
The Korea word order goes Scissors, Rock, Paper (I think, I know the first one is Gawi - scissors). So this doesn't explain the discrepancy. |
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yingwenlaoshi
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 4:59 am Post subject: |
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| It might be because it has a nicer ring to it when said in that order in Korean. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 5:22 am Post subject: Re: Rock, Scissors, Paper? |
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| Where I came from it was always "Paper, rock, scissors." |
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chevro1et
Joined: 01 Feb 2007
Location: Busan, ROK
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 5:35 am Post subject: Re: Rock, Scissors, Paper? |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| Where I came from it was always "Paper, rock, scissors." |
Yep, me too. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 5:37 am Post subject: |
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| And what about that fourth option: bomb? Doesn't that destroy everything but scissors? Can't remember. I was more in the "One potato" era. |
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wo buxihuan hanguoren
Joined: 18 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 5:40 am Post subject: |
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| No lies - in my country it was 'Ching Chong Cha' - I wish I was making this *beep* up, but I'm not. |
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doowee
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 8:21 am Post subject: |
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| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
| And what about that fourth option: bomb? Doesn't that destroy everything but scissors? Can't remember. I was more in the "One potato" era. |
Yeah I pulled out the bomb on my kids the other day, then probably beat them at arm wrestling just to boost my ego a bit more. I've always known it as rock, paper, scissors, but all my kids know it as rock, scissors, paper. Not sure why, but it always solves any dispute or problems in the classroom. |
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Nicco61
Joined: 06 May 2007
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 8:38 am Post subject: |
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| How 'bout Ki Bi Bo |
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Emark
Joined: 10 May 2007
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 8:42 am Post subject: The BOMB ! |
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| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
| And what about that fourth option: bomb? Doesn't that destroy everything but scissors? Can't remember. I was more in the "One potato" era. |
....................Rock..........Paper........Scissors........Bomb
Rock..............tie...............P................R................B
Paper.............P................tie..............S.................P
Scissors..........R................S..............tie................S
Bomb.............B................P...............S.................tie
Although it is a bit senseless; the paper covers the bomb's fuse. However, it is clear that the bomb blows up the rock and the scissors cuts the fuse.
Pleas don't pull out the bomb on your students, even if they are hateful little vermin.
Last edited by Emark on Fri May 25, 2007 8:47 am; edited 2 times in total |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 8:43 am Post subject: |
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I just read all of the OP's original post. Yeah, they're order is Scissors, Paper, Rock. So I don't know why.
Kawee, Bawee, Bo! |
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trubadour
Joined: 03 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 8:48 am Post subject: |
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| I recon we used to say 'scissors, paper, stone' |
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jajdude
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 9:04 am Post subject: |
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How is paper supposed to defeat rock anyway? Paper covers rock, so? Rock is fine, he doesn't mind a bit of paper. How about dynamite blows up rock? Scissors could defeat dynamite, as long as it's Wyle E Coyote* dynamite, by cutting the wick before it explodes.
*Note: I am not an expert on dynamite, but know the Acme Company.
Rock scissors dynamite. That's what it should be. I guess for the dynamite sign you just point the index finger upward. |
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Qinella
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
| And what about that fourth option: bomb? Doesn't that destroy everything but scissors? Can't remember. I was more in the "One potato" era. |
The Korean words are gawi bawi bo (scissors rock paper) |
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yingwenlaoshi
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
I just read all of the OP's original post. Yeah, they're order is Scissors, Paper, Rock. So I don't know why.
Kawee, Bawee, Bo! |
Oops! It's typo day for me. Theirs just no excuse for it. |
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yingwenlaoshi
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| Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 4:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Qinella wrote: |
| yingwenlaoshi wrote: |
| And what about that fourth option: bomb? Doesn't that destroy everything but scissors? Can't remember. I was more in the "One potato" era. |
The Korean words are gawi bawi bo (scissors rock paper) |
Thank you for that Korean lesson. 
Take a look a couple of posts above there, Perceptive Man. |
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