Something To Amuse You (NSFW!)
Aug. 2nd, 2010 06:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rahnekatLanguage is a funny thing, especially when you start getting into colloquialisms and swears. For some reason, some of those don't translate that well across. I saw this recent example of that on Boing Boing.
Here, a man is teaching Korean speakers English swear words so they'll recognize when a foreigner curses. I find a few of things amusing about this. 1) Apparently in Korean, a word teenagers use that means both good and bad is 'pickled'. 2) It's somewhat odd to hear someone cussing when it's obvious the words they're saying don't mean anything to them. 3) The fact that this gentleman is only teaching the words so Korean speakers can recognize them. He actually encourages people watching the video never to use them. More than that, when he's using Korean swear words as examples, he claims that he's never used those words before in his entire life. I'm not sure it's actually, physically possible to be that polite.
Seriously though, you should watch the video.
Here, a man is teaching Korean speakers English swear words so they'll recognize when a foreigner curses. I find a few of things amusing about this. 1) Apparently in Korean, a word teenagers use that means both good and bad is 'pickled'. 2) It's somewhat odd to hear someone cussing when it's obvious the words they're saying don't mean anything to them. 3) The fact that this gentleman is only teaching the words so Korean speakers can recognize them. He actually encourages people watching the video never to use them. More than that, when he's using Korean swear words as examples, he claims that he's never used those words before in his entire life. I'm not sure it's actually, physically possible to be that polite.
Seriously though, you should watch the video.
