Wednesday, October 26, 2005

"Konglish"


KOrean thinking + attempt to put in eNGLISH = "KONGLISH" This ad from SamSung is a good example of how some things sound a little strange and just don't work when attempting to translate into English.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Found your site by random...
I was just in Korea and I took a pic of this self same sign!!!
Well, mine was in Gimpo Airport.
It's funny what will amuse us foreign devils! ;)

8:28 AM  
Blogger Andrew Brown said...

It is funny what will amuse us, I agree! :-)
BUT, I would not agree to being labelled as "a devil"...Especially as a child of God who has been freed from the powers of darkness...(Ephesians 2:1-10)
Blessings!

11:44 PM  

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