Thread 213405108

The Korean word for "voice" is "neck sound".

The Swedish word for OP is faggot

>>213405108 (OP)
How did ancient Koreans know that voice comes from the throat and not the mouth?

The Korean word for "fish" is "water meat".
The Korean word for "apron" is "top skirt".
The Korean word for "heaven" is "sky country".

The Korean word for "tears" is "eye water".
The Korean word for "eyebrows" is "eye forest".
The Korean word for "flashlight" is "hand light".
The Korean word for "headache" is "head pain".
The Korean word for "Refrigerator" is "cold storage"

The Korean word for "shirt" is just the English word "shirt" but pronounced in Korean. This implies that shirts did not exist in Korea until contact with English speakers was made.

>>213405108 (OP)
the swedish word for nipple is “breast wart”

>>213406022
This is about half of Japanese too, it's weird.

>>213406022
That’s not how language or history works.
Just because Korean uses the English-derived word shirt doesn’t mean shirts didn’t exist.

Traditional Korean clothing like jeogori served the same function long before Western contact. it’s just a different design. so If you were to translate Jeogori, it could be translated as Korean shirt.

>>213406335
my headcanon is that there were a whole bunch of topless women walking around in ancient korea, so i'm going with that.

>>213406548
Unfortunately, if you go back further in history, the jeogori actually got longer and reached down to the thighs

The Korean language makes no distinction between "maybe" and "probably".

>>213407902
Damn, I really thought they meant the same thing, but I just saw this comment and realized they're different.

>>213409039
It's a small but significant difference. Their meanings are similar, but using "maybe" instead of "probably" (or vice-versa) can greatly change the meaning of a sentence.

>>213405609
is that why all the english names from korean starcraft broodwar pros sometimes sound so funny, because they use literal translations?
good to know

>>213405609
>hand light
that makes more sense than "flash light" desu.