Laugh Out Loud Moment At Work Today

HAHA!

Published on April 10, 2006 By chiprj In Blogging

While doing some preview work for a class I would be teaching this morning, I was looking up the Chinese roots of some Korean words so that I could better explain why they mean what they do. Well, I was trying to get the meaning for Ä¡ (öÇ) when I got a pure Korean word I was unfamiliar with as a definition. So, I looked up the pure Korean word º£Ç®´Ù.

Well, as I skimmed the definition, I came to an example sentence -

T¾¾ÀÇ ±Í±¹ ÃàÇÏ ÀÜÄ¡°¡ º£Ç®¾îÁ³´Ù.

The translation of that sentence is "A reception was held in honor of Mr. T who had recently returned from his journey abroad."

I'm not joking. The paper dictionary I use at work is actually a shared source with Yahoo Korea's online dictionary. You can see this sentence at Link for yourself.

I pity the fool that don't click that link.

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Comments

chiprj

on Apr 10, 2006

If you can read Korean but can't actually see the Korean on your screen, change your encoding under "View" on your browser to Korean and it will appear.

singrdave

on Apr 10, 2006

Nope, still not working. Could be that I'm on Netscape, though it has a Korean selection for character coding... Could you spell it in SKATS for me?

singrdave

on Apr 10, 2006

Spoke too soon... got it through the link.
Good party, too. He got some more bling. What else do you get Mr. T?

chiprj

on Apr 10, 2006

It could be with how I post in Korean on this site. I can't actually type in Korean. Well, I can, but it's a blind hunt and peck method. I never learned the Korean keyboard. What I do is type the SKATS and then use a macro build into my normal.dot file to convert it to Korean. Then I cut and paste to the article here. Could be that since it's just a conversion thing, it's not being picked up as a true Korean font by netscape. I know that I have to manually change my encoding to Korean because even my machine won't recognize the it until I do.

AngelaMarie88

on Apr 10, 2006

change your encoding under "View" on your browser to Korean and it will appear

I did that and I can see the Korean. No problem. That's neat.

AngelaMarie88

on Apr 10, 2006

P.S. I'm using internet explorer.

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