Archive for the 'Language' Category

11/18 I didn’t say it, they did…

DATECHNO(www.datechno.co.kr) has launched its drunkometer ‘AL5000’ designed to take a more precise drunkometer test.

It examines a person’s sobriety with his deep breath in terms of certain time and pressure.

Duhuhuh…

Marmot, can you translate for me, puhleeze? /me not understand…

Next time, try one of these words:
1) boozometer
2) digital output analogue input ethanol content tester
3) breathalyzer
Only one works, really…

11/18 Got cleaver? Me butcher language!

Lordy lordy lordy… We’ll deal with the fit-inducing, Hello Kittyish design another time. ENERKEEPER, all caps, so that you don’t miss the barbarism. For Energy Keeper, I’d submit as a humble guess, for the Koreansky version is ‘전기절전기’, aka 電氣節電機.
They patented a new technology, too; it’s called ATW: AUTO TRANS WINDING, all caps again, in case you’d miss it. TRANS being whatever you’d like it to be, from TRANSgression of common sense to TRANSmogrification of the English language. Best bet still being something like 變壓, 변압, transformation [of electricty voltage].

Anyway, it’s supposed to cut down your electricity by 15%. Who cares about Kongrishi and puke-pink if it works, right?

Now there’s a venture for an adroit entrepreneur: custom, on-site remodeling of ugly appliances.

10/26 대한민국 넘버 원 채널

Oh-shee-enn [OCN]. The only slanty-eyed to get the C [cee] part right is Chan Long, aka 成龍, aka Jackie Chan.

Yes, I am in Korea and watching too much TV. And if you don’t understand what I’m talking about, you don’t need to know   :D

10/21 Can you say it in English?

Interpretation of: Korean
[…]
We are contacting you in search of hope that you might be aware of this dialect, able to interpret this and if so your availability or ability to refer us to anyone you may know.
See here

Let’s skip the “dialect” bit [Korean being a dialect of which language..?], I am not exactly filled with confidence – say as a potential customer – by the poster’s command of English… in search of hope that you might be aware of this dialect

/me chuckles

09/26 The most unkorean I’ve seen so far

고품격 라이프스타일을 위한 웰빙 피자. Check that. And then again, so Korean, in a freakish way…