I asked some students to compare the Korean and English languages. Stupid me, I should have know that this would provoke all kinds of weird knee-jerk claims that Korean is somehow “superior” to English. Weird because, if you know anything about language (and I’d imagine someone who majors in foreign language study would bother to learn about language too), you know that there aren’t more and less “primitive” languages, or that “better” and “worse” aren’t really objective qualities of languages. (A language might be better for some purposes, but this does not make it a better language in essence.) It’s …
Month: November 2006
Full of it.
Quote from Lime tonight: Me: Yeah, Andre Kim is pretty weird. Lime: Andre Kim is full of weird. I don’t know why, but I really do like that one. (For those abroad: He’s a scary fashion designer in Korea… apparently quite a nice guy, but he looks quite strange.)
Protestin’ for Bus Station Something Whatever
One of my students was an hour late for class. Apparently the city of Bucheon has decided to convert one of its bus terminals into a housing zone, and some people don’t like that. So they lay down in the street and held up traffic tonight… for over an hour. Now, I can see the point in protesting something like that, but… when you know you can lay down in the street and hold up traffic for an hour, for just about anything you disagree with, then it seems to me that: you’ve lost whatever stake the protesting had. You …
Addicted to Slingette
What can you do when you’re stuck in your office, too tired to think, and have another class in a few hours? Slingette.
Weirdest Line Yet
Okay, here’s the weidest line yet, in the fifth of five dramas I’m editing for my students: (Kelly, Erin, Nurse3 are flapping their chops in a lounge.) I’m pretty sure that someone out there has a very weird idioms function in his or her dictionary.