Sometimes I think the mysteries of the Korean language are better left unraveled to the unsuspecting. Imagine, before you knew the punch line you thought the joke must be culturally complex, possibly deep, least of all hilarious. But now you know the sad truth, which is that it's cheesy and not that funny. Damn.
Might I add the duality that the line can be understood as "stop horsing around" or "stop gobbling". Still lame, huh.
I still love it though and plan to post it every year!
I'm going to start telling my kids, "Stop acting rashly!" especially at big turkey-dinner-eating events.
I'll admit that something gets lost in the translation, but at least I'll know it's funny.
It will become a quirky family tradition that becomes more disconcerting (ie: funny, to me) over time as I grow older and my mental faculties come more and more into question.
Years after I'm gone my grandkids will find this comment thread on some household device equiped with a pin-head sized chip containing the entire historical contents of the internets. How they will laugh then!
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Google gives the following translation:
"It does not act rashly E"
Either that's not an ideal translation, or I don't get the joke.
Neat. Thanks, Helen. Good one.
Sometimes I think the mysteries of the Korean language are better left unraveled to the unsuspecting. Imagine, before you knew the punch line you thought the joke must be culturally complex, possibly deep, least of all hilarious. But now you know the sad truth, which is that it's cheesy and not that funny. Damn.
Might I add the duality that the line can be understood as "stop horsing around" or "stop gobbling". Still lame, huh.
I still love it though and plan to post it every year!
I'm going to start telling my kids, "Stop acting rashly!" especially at big turkey-dinner-eating events.
I'll admit that something gets lost in the translation, but at least I'll know it's funny.
It will become a quirky family tradition that becomes more disconcerting (ie: funny, to me) over time as I grow older and my mental faculties come more and more into question.
Years after I'm gone my grandkids will find this comment thread on some household device equiped with a pin-head sized chip containing the entire historical contents of the internets. How they will laugh then!
I smell a legacy.
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