Tag: language
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Those people with too much XP… I finally…
Those people with too much XP… I finally found out how they are doing it. Those people in the diamon leauge who have like 50,000 xp. They obviously sold their soul to the duolingo bird in exchange for inconceivable amounts of xp. You called? Having played strategy games for 20 years, i can’t help min/max…
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> Is the Korean word 부 Bu…
> Is the Korean word “부 (Bu)” pronounced as “poo” and does it mean “wealth”? It’s pronounced boo, as in “he’s my boo”. I’m gonna attempt to explain my street level knowledge of the influence of hanja (written chinese) in korean here… Thousands of Korean words are actually korean pronunciations of chinese words that were…
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They are weaved together from young trending internet…
They are weaved together from young-trending internet-centric niche jargon, which they themselves originate from various contexts.
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What is Translation? (Part 1)
The more concrete the linguistic example, the more on-point the cross-cultural translation would be. The more abstract, the less helpful for specific situations. For most highly nuanced expressions, it’s best to 1) apply the expression to a specific social situation, then 2) transfer that social situation culturally to the target language’s natural environment and then…
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Someone on HelloTalk asked for feedback on her…
Someone on HelloTalk asked for feedback on her sentence “그럼에도 다시 일어나, 숨 쉬고 미소 짓고 앞으로 전진해”. I wanted to discuss the poetic imagery a bit to have the sentence flow more naturally. Ok.. So the imagery is that the 화자 was running (in the race.. Of.. Life, i guess), but stumbled across a…
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https www youtube com watch v=UlkjdHlq8Hk I saw…
I saw Jeremy’s video “Why is Learning Korean So Hard? – Language as Mind” and found many of the ideas presented there to be very intriguing, and wanted to continue this conversation. Here is my take three on this video response.