Showing posts with label engrish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label engrish. Show all posts

Friday, 10 December 2010

Language Exchange

So I signed up for a language exchange website to learn Korean from a native. I might continue to do this in NYC when I get back.
It's a great website called www.conversationexchange.com.

OK one weird thing is I get this response from a man.

"it's so Freezing, today in the morning! 너무 추워서 얼어 죽겠어요 >,i hope you wrap your body with a lot of thick clothes!"

At first my initial reaction was to delete immediately because what a creepy thing to say. But then I thought about it and I guess his English just sucks, Koreans commonly say things to eachother like:
eat well or a lot
live healthily
study hard
dress warmly

So I am hoping "I hope you wrap your body with a lot of thick clothes" is his way of saying dress warmly?

Wednesday, 3 November 2010

You Rook Rike...


Dan: So did you get any special treatment or recognized as Korean when you traveled around?

Me: Um no, in Japan people kept telling me I looked Japanese, they thought that was a complement, um not.

In Bali, a waitress said to me "What are you? Your face look like China"

Dan: hahaha You pase rook rike china?

Me: Yeah, apparently my face looks like the country of china. Who knew?

Sunday, 29 August 2010

Definition of Hip Hop according to NB drink ticket

This is on the free drink ticket word for word, typo for typo:

While hip hop is speech which call of genre of popular music, mean which indicate flowing during culture whole.
Speech called hiphapi stemed from 'Shake rump.'
Hiphop music happened first time by italic captains New York's emigrant blacks in 1970.
Four, tap Dijeing Geurapiti, Beureikeudaenseu is taken mainly on constituent that accomplish Hiphop.

Say what????????

Wednesday, 25 August 2010

Engrish

Me: What is slander?
Jason: It is a lizard
Me: No, it is not a lizard, where do you get this from
Jason: Teacher, it IS a lizard
Me: Ohhhhh salamander....no it is not a salamander