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December 20, 2006
Wednesday
 
 
How should I make fun of this? Let me count the ways
Michael Jennings (London)  Asian affairs
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Personally I desire himalaya wonderful style. Which means it must be the place for me.

This is just too easy. I am in the Nonhyeon area of Seoul, which is a nice part of town with lots of interesting shops, and some reasonably decent architecture. And a variety of other interesting sights.

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Yes, that is a Daewoo Matiz with spoilers. Really.

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As a Londoner, all I can say is that their profound insight into and authentic reproduction of London's street fraternity culture is uncanny. Particularly the bit with the skateboard.

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If you enjoy this particular sort of hilarity, check out www.engrish.com. You won't be able to stop laughing for hours. :-)


Posted by Ivan at December 20, 2006 06:05 AM

Nice to see that stereotyping works both ways.


Posted by mandrill at December 20, 2006 09:50 AM

Do you think they intended the first kid at 'There's' to be swearing at passers by? Then again, that probably is a fairly accurate representation of certain segments of London's street fraternity culture!


Posted by cuthhyra at December 20, 2006 12:30 PM

I always laughed at the Seoul subway system. Instead of signs that said "EXIT" they had signs that said "WAY OUT". I guess hippie slang never made it to Korea or else they'd have realized their mistake.


Posted by David Crawford at December 20, 2006 03:35 PM

And the express trains to the suburbs are labeled FAR OUT, man.


Posted by triticale at December 20, 2006 06:59 PM

Imagine that you live in a country where the native language is not English, and at school, when the time comes to study foreign languages, the only choice is English.

And you are forced to study it with the usual collection of uninspired teachers and students.

Yet, there is an undoubted combination of panache and power in the English speaking world that elicits both admiration and jealousy.

Some of the things they come up with are mind-warping, to be sure, but as one who has grappled with and makes a living in a foreign language for close to a quarter century, I find the jokes a bit unseemly.


Posted by Ampontan at December 21, 2006 01:36 AM

C'mon, Ampotan, English is my second language, and I still find this hilarious. Especially the "far out" bit:-O


Posted by Alisa at December 21, 2006 04:38 PM

Accurate? Hardly. The brit kid in the pic has the wrong fingers sticking up.


Posted by bobby_b at December 21, 2006 09:13 PM
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