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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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 Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:29 am Post subject: Surprised when your friends back home can't read hangul? |
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| Ever show your friends photos and things and realize you have to stop and remember they can't read the Korean characters and you need to explain things? And of course your friends think you're a freakin' jean ass because you can read this nutty Chinese ching chong. Ya know? |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:31 am Post subject: |
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"You can read that?!!"
Said with a mixture of "Wow!" and "You're a strange guy, huh?" |
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Atavistic
Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:35 am Post subject: |
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My mother isn't usually so ditzy but....when she was here she was asking me what some Hanja was at a palace. "I don't know Mom, it's not Korean."
"How can you tell?"
I stared at her. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 2:46 pm Post subject: |
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| Atavistic wrote: |
My mother isn't usually so ditzy but....when she was here she was asking me what some Hanja was at a palace. "I don't know Mom, it's not Korean."
"How can you tell?"
I stared at her. |
Just tell her "if it has circles, it's not chinese". |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 3:33 pm Post subject: |
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| When I was in Iran, I was at a hotel reading the guest book. I was reading one entry written by a Korean and I laughed at something they wrote. The owner of the hotel and this other girl took notice and he said to me, "yeah, it's funny looking writing", but I mentioned I was actually laughing at what they wrote. Well, the two of them just kind of stared at me with a "oh my god, you can read that gibberish" look and were amazed. He then asked me what it said, and he was quite happy because it was actually mentioning something nice about him. |
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Atavistic
Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
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| Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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| mindmetoo wrote: |
| Atavistic wrote: |
My mother isn't usually so ditzy but....when she was here she was asking me what some Hanja was at a palace. "I don't know Mom, it's not Korean."
"How can you tell?"
I stared at her. |
Just tell her "if it has circles, it's not chinese". |
I said, "Korean is sticks and balls and squares" but it didn't help. Oh well. |
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Alan Partidge
Joined: 29 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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| No. What a farking ridiculous thought. |
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tiger fancini
Joined: 21 Mar 2006
Location: Testicles for Eyes
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| Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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| When I went back home in summer vacation, I taught my mum how to read hangul. She was very impressed, and in no time she was reading it pretty well. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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| ajgeddes wrote: |
| When I was in Iran, I was at a hotel reading the guest book. I was reading one entry written by a Korean and I laughed at something they wrote. The owner of the hotel and this other girl took notice and he said to me, "yeah, it's funny looking writing", but I mentioned I was actually laughing at what they wrote. Well, the two of them just kind of stared at me with a "oh my god, you can read that gibberish" look and were amazed. He then asked me what it said, and he was quite happy because it was actually mentioning something nice about him. |
Everything is gibberish if ya can't understand it. |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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| jajdude wrote: |
| ajgeddes wrote: |
| When I was in Iran, I was at a hotel reading the guest book. I was reading one entry written by a Korean and I laughed at something they wrote. The owner of the hotel and this other girl took notice and he said to me, "yeah, it's funny looking writing", but I mentioned I was actually laughing at what they wrote. Well, the two of them just kind of stared at me with a "oh my god, you can read that gibberish" look and were amazed. He then asked me what it said, and he was quite happy because it was actually mentioning something nice about him. |
Everything is gibberish if ya can't understand it. |
Exactly. |
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wo buxihuan hanguoren
Joined: 18 Apr 2007
Location: Suyuskis
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| Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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| jajdude wrote: |
| ajgeddes wrote: |
| When I was in Iran, I was at a hotel reading the guest book. I was reading one entry written by a Korean and I laughed at something they wrote. The owner of the hotel and this other girl took notice and he said to me, "yeah, it's funny looking writing", but I mentioned I was actually laughing at what they wrote. Well, the two of them just kind of stared at me with a "oh my god, you can read that gibberish" look and were amazed. He then asked me what it said, and he was quite happy because it was actually mentioning something nice about him. |
Everything is gibberish if ya can't understand it. |
Correct. |
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Scotticus
Joined: 18 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 7:38 pm Post subject: |
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| jajdude wrote: |
| ajgeddes wrote: |
| When I was in Iran, I was at a hotel reading the guest book. I was reading one entry written by a Korean and I laughed at something they wrote. The owner of the hotel and this other girl took notice and he said to me, "yeah, it's funny looking writing", but I mentioned I was actually laughing at what they wrote. Well, the two of them just kind of stared at me with a "oh my god, you can read that gibberish" look and were amazed. He then asked me what it said, and he was quite happy because it was actually mentioning something nice about him. |
Everything is gibberish if ya can't understand it. |
Absolutely. |
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Fresh Prince
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: The glorious nation of Korea
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| Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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Everything is gibberish if ya can't understand it. |
そうですねえ。 |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Fresh Prince wrote: |
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Everything is gibberish if ya can't understand it. |
そうですねえ。 |
STOP THAT GIBBERISH! |
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kiwiduncan
Joined: 18 Jun 2007
Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2007 5:29 am Post subject: |
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| Here in the UK I taught my international mix of students how to read hangul in about five minutes. The trick is to write out a bunch of words that are the same in Korean as English (tomato, banana, bikini, computer, London, New Zealand, Russia etc) on the white board then give them a few hints. |
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