Well, I couldn’t access the F5 page to see the question, but according to Dan my question came up next:
What are your five favorite words (in any language), and why do you like them so much?
Me, there are tons of words I’m crazy about in a few different languages.
Well, I’m not going to do this very carefully, so my faux-dictionary style may be riddled with inconsistencies, but anyway, here you go:
Machin-truc (ma
Korean seems ike a fascinating language; is there somewhere online where there are clips of the language that I could listen to, to hear how it sounds?
Is “gordsellar” based on a Korean word, or is your name Gordon and it’s a nickname?
Um, where can you hear Korean online… good question. I don’t know of anywhere where you can hear it as it’s normally spoken, but I recommend you simply rent (or borrow from your library) one of the big Korean movies circulating now for a taste of how it sounds. Something like “Untold Scandal” or “Save the Green Planet”, maybe, or “Taegukgi”.
As for “gordsellar”, my name is Gord Sellar. I just compressed the two into a single word for my handle. Not too imaginative, but it works for me.
In Korean, the way they say my name sounds like the Korean name for a kind of fish or, more often, people say, it sounds like the Korean word for icicle (Go-deu-reum).
A Korean movie is a good idea; I’ll see if Blockbuster Online has one!! :-)
I’ve changed my link to you to say “Gord’s blog”… although I’m REALLY tempted to make it be “Icicle’s blog.” ;-)