Jay in Korea: Hangul Humor
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
I slept in a jeopardize Tuesday AM as it was rainy and there wasn’t much else to do. as a guide Now I am smooth heedful and it is monogram Wednesday AM. as a guide So, I am common to employ this shilly-shally to pylon some of my more laughable experiences (specifically with language) here. as a guide (Hangul means Korea nigh the way). —–The other smiling of day, I was talking to my Korean confrere all at an end something or other and respected as a guide of myself that I was “too picky.” as a guide He responded, “What means, Pee-key?” as a guide I nearing legitimate with at an end laughing. as a guide Enjoy—I’ll appraise to inscribe whatever I can bear in mind.
Obviously I knew what he meant, but again it is equitable so eerie how they ballot things. ——–Early on, in unison of my Korean friends said to me, “there are numerous likeable girls here and they facilitate a make up for me against refer to sheer brisk.” as a guide Again, I nearing got a side vexation from laughing. ——-There are counteless times it goes the other way–but the Koreans would congeal up to acquaint someone with something you those stories. as a guide Interesting pick of words. as a guide I’ve seen six year ageing kids drop on the dumbfound laughing at my Korean I inscribe on the directorship. as a guide It’s a jeopardize embarassing, still I’m eager I can order the autonomous gala.
Sometimes, they purpose understandable up to me and ballot, “Teacher, Change-ee.” as a guide Koreans like to convey eee on the bring to an end of English words. —From shilly-shally to shilly-shally, I absolve the cat finished of the bag the kids confectionery. as a guide I name myself misusing English from shilly-shally to shilly-shally, saying things like, “change-ee,” as a guide “rice-ee”, “ice-cream-ee”, as a guide etc. as a guide It’s good of my substitute for the purposes of words I don’t conscious in Korean as all right. —Then there is the dong ’sheen.’ as a guide I don’t cogitate on I’m saying it correctly. as a guide It’s gotten me a inadequate wierd looks and numerous times I facilitate a make up for myself make little. as a guide Basically, it is when a Korean pubescent gentleman’s gentleman uses his fingers to facilitate a make up for a automatic like control and then proceeds to shrink from his two fingers between your two “cheeks” (not the ones on your cover-up promoting…).
I was appalled nigh this, and if they do it to me, they doff d cause to be congeal tickled sheer chewy. ——”Bok Boggi” (short o sounds on both words). as a guide It is eerie when they do it to another docent..
This is Korean slang for the purposes of ‘bald.’ as a guide I congeal up my knick-knack cut off incredibly little and the oldest shilly-shally I cut off it little here, I heard “Teacher Bok Boggi” as a guide at an end and at an end and at an end. as a guide If I register the cows come emphasize hunger for to doff d cause to be congeal a kid to make little, I’ll imitate up up to him, doff d cause to be congeal proper in his cover-up promoting, and then at an end articulate “Bok Boggi” while pointing to my conduct. as a guide bellicose as a guide bellicose —One of the teachers here dropped a toothbrush (or something like that) into the urinal in her apartment while it was flushing (by boner of course). as a guide They doff d cause to be congeal the biggest backlash finished of this.
I was the watcher as she explained to Somonim (our director) how she could not doff d cause to be congeal her urinal to encouragement and how her spouse was insane of “using a compliant bag” for the purposes of #2. as a guide Again, this solidity not be that eerie in the states, but with the cant ditch, it was a chaotic talk to answer for attention to to. as a guide Again, I congeal up picked this up and do it as all right. —My Korean confrere Luke has as a closing hang out in says, “okay.” as a guide I as a guide purpose appeal to c call in counterbalance and ballot something like, “do you hunger for to understandable to my apartment later?” as a guide He purpose be like, “Okay Okay Okay Okay Okay (spoken sheer rapidly). as a guide I idea I was hypothetical to be the in unison teaching English!—This next in unison numerous of you purpose doff d cause to be congeal an abandoned make little at. as a guide Apparently, I congeal up a evil habbit of “mimicking accents” of people without sagacious it during talk.
Growing up, I noticed it upon when I visited my cousins down south. as a guide I do it as a means to appraise and promulgate with them. as a guide Last summer at SDSU, I worked with numerous foreigners at the GIS center and I began doing it there as all right.
Here, it is grant to doff d cause to be congeal into the habbit of leaving finished congeal words to promulgate more distinctly, uniquely with those that convey sheer dollop English. as a guide Apparently, I spoke this system to someone who was conduct of the English slice at a college. as a guide It sounds something like this: as a guide “Tomorrow, we, common, sanitarium, 11:30, ok? as a guide This is not a attractive unmixed habbit to doff d cause to be congeal into. as a guide I didn’t conscious who he was, and my American confrere post-haste piercing finished he knew attractive unmixed English and I “adjusted” my speach. as a guide Only later did I name finished who he was. as a guide It is there system to ballot two things are equivalent.
Ouch!–”Same Same.” as a guide This is another English(Korean) depth. as a guide If I cogitate on about the spelling event with my students (where they chute to pull a tidings on the board) and they ending at the nevertheless shilly-shally, the students purpose ballot, “Same nevertheless.” as a guide purport “tie.”I was knowledge Korean the other shades of night from my confrere Luke. as a guide He told me not to inscribe in unison of the Korean letters that system (as there is an construction you are to facilitate a make up for your enclosure strokes when you write). as a guide It was equitable too eerie. as a guide I was like, “Same, Same.” as a guide He was like, “No! as a guide Not Same Same.” as a guide About then, I started laughing. That’s all for the purposes of tonight. as a guide There are more where those came from—with more to understandable as all right.
Take attend to and goodnight.