Sunday, October 09, 2005

Butchering names with the Korean language...

Well, neither my office computer nor my laptop read Korean characters so I thought I'd try this at the "PC bang" while in Seoul for church.
This is my name in Korean.
앤디브라운
I use "앤디" (Andy) in Korea because "앤드루" (Andrew) has three syllables in the Korean language and just sounds horrible when pronounced in that "Korean style", ha!ha!
They butcher my last name, "브라운"(Brown), in the same way, stretching it out from 1 syllable into 3!!! Well, I guess I shouldn't complain-That's nothing compared to how they butcher my good friend, Eugene Sphindler's name, ha!ha!
I don't know where they get it from (apart from nationalistic brain washing) but Koreans are constantly saying "Korean is the most scientific language in the world! Whatever!"
한국어 미치겠다!!!

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