You probably don't understand what I am saying because most of people come here for check out my English. Does it make sense?
They don't understand what I am saying but they wanted know my level of English. It was nonsense so that is why Korea's English education system was totally corrupted.
Anyway, I don't have much time for writing anything here because I am really busy blogging with my Korean blog. So if you were interested, you can visit Ara's global mind column blog or Ara's properly Learn English blog or Ara's think logically twitter.
I didn't expect so much fun from twittering because I don't like writing sms because of limitation of 160 characters or so.
But now I really enjoyed it in Korean which is update with facebook.com's my account.
And then someone followed me so I checked out who he or she was. And then I really enjoyed what he was twittering. He or she is Ralph Wiggum.-You know, I don't have any idea about any name from gender.- That link is his twitter page.
I can't writing any English in thinklogically account because Korean can't understand English. So now I am thinking about make one more twitter account for English.
I am thinking about it but I can't decide because I have too many blogs and twitter accounts.
Hey, one more thing.
I told you this is more like diary. I am not writing this from Microsoft Word which can check spelling and grammatical error. So don't complain about my grammatical error.
Think wisely and don't be an arse.
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^_~ Ara
Monday, May 18, 2009
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Isn't it funny? (about my English)
Yes, I know that my writing wasn't that good. But when did I say that I can write English better than Native English speaker? Are you crazy or what?
How can I someone learn one language for 6 to 10 years and then he or she can write and speak better than Native English speaker? Are you dreaming?
Even my Korean writing skills are quite poor because I haven't study well when I was in high school. So if someone can speak Korean as second language but writing was very poor, I will credit for that. Because I know that learn a language as second language wasn't easy thing.
I wrote 'about secondhand stores in Korea' and then lots of people complained about my grammar and wrong vocabulary.
Later on, I read it again that writing and then I realized that it was really poor. Yes, I know that.
But what's the problem? I should be far better than Native English speaker? That's why I said 'So what?'.
I will show you this. Whatever I wrote here, it will publish at my facebook.com's account. So when I wrote 'vegetarian food for Korean word', my American friends didn't mention anything about English. Can't you see the your problem?
I will say this again. If you don't know anything about learn English AS second language, you should learn and research and then you can talk to me about my grammar or vocabulary.
I don't want to give you a free lesson. So go away quietly, if you want to fuss about my English.
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^_~ Ara
How can I someone learn one language for 6 to 10 years and then he or she can write and speak better than Native English speaker? Are you dreaming?
Even my Korean writing skills are quite poor because I haven't study well when I was in high school. So if someone can speak Korean as second language but writing was very poor, I will credit for that. Because I know that learn a language as second language wasn't easy thing.
I wrote 'about secondhand stores in Korea' and then lots of people complained about my grammar and wrong vocabulary.
Later on, I read it again that writing and then I realized that it was really poor. Yes, I know that.
But what's the problem? I should be far better than Native English speaker? That's why I said 'So what?'.
I will show you this. Whatever I wrote here, it will publish at my facebook.com's account. So when I wrote 'vegetarian food for Korean word', my American friends didn't mention anything about English. Can't you see the your problem?
I will say this again. If you don't know anything about learn English AS second language, you should learn and research and then you can talk to me about my grammar or vocabulary.
I don't want to give you a free lesson. So go away quietly, if you want to fuss about my English.
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^_~ Ara
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Who am I? I am what I am.
I wrote this on my Korean blog http://asrai21c.tistory.com/348 @ 2009/02/21 02:43.
This is not suppose to be here in my Korean blog but I just wanted to say what I wanted to say.
It is not intention to understand what I am saying here by Korean because I want to talk about why I am doing this. I know that you probably find out that who am I based on reading my article here or find out my personal history from Ara's profile.
But you will never understand why I was wrote lots of things here because I am talking about something else. What I am trying to do here is that revolution of the Korean's future. You probably think that how ridiculous what I just said.
Yes, it is ridiculously super(??) crazy talk. However, it is possible if you let me talk and if you listen carefully what I am saying here.
I am not trying to convince you. I am just trying to ask you that why do you think that way? People claim that I was wrong but you know I was right. Why? That's the thing. Why?
That's the what I have been really doing. Why do you think that he was right or I was right or you don't know? Why?
I believe that you subscribe(I don't know what's the word for RSS reader's subscription.) in my blog here. Because you probably felt that it is something you can learn.
That's really good start. Listen... and think... and think. That's what you have to do.
It is almost eighty-something people subscribe in my blog so I just wanted to say whether you can understand or not..
People never change. But people can change if they can accept(or learn) other people's mind.
So please be patient and learn from other people's thought and mind.
From
^_~ Ara
This is not suppose to be here in my Korean blog but I just wanted to say what I wanted to say.
It is not intention to understand what I am saying here by Korean because I want to talk about why I am doing this. I know that you probably find out that who am I based on reading my article here or find out my personal history from Ara's profile.
But you will never understand why I was wrote lots of things here because I am talking about something else. What I am trying to do here is that revolution of the Korean's future. You probably think that how ridiculous what I just said.
Yes, it is ridiculously super(??) crazy talk. However, it is possible if you let me talk and if you listen carefully what I am saying here.
I am not trying to convince you. I am just trying to ask you that why do you think that way? People claim that I was wrong but you know I was right. Why? That's the thing. Why?
That's the what I have been really doing. Why do you think that he was right or I was right or you don't know? Why?
I believe that you subscribe(I don't know what's the word for RSS reader's subscription.) in my blog here. Because you probably felt that it is something you can learn.
That's really good start. Listen... and think... and think. That's what you have to do.
It is almost eighty-something people subscribe in my blog so I just wanted to say whether you can understand or not..
People never change. But people can change if they can accept(or learn) other people's mind.
So please be patient and learn from other people's thought and mind.
From
^_~ Ara
Monday, February 16, 2009
about secondhand stores in Korea
You can find anywhere in town for secondhand stores. You can find shop name with "Je-hwal-yong centre 재활용 센터". So if you want to ask to Korean, you can ask with secondhand stuff as " Joong-go-poom 중고품 or Joong-go mool-poom 중고물품" or secondhand store as "Joong-go Sang-jum 중고 상점".
But problem is that store was quite complicated because some shop selling the furniture only, some shop selling the home electric only. Some of them selling the mixed up with anything. So it will be difficult to find what you wanted.
And price was not that reasonable. Because you will find out that new one wasn't that expensive.
If you didn't buy the stuff with carefulness, it will probably break or explode.
From
^_~ Ara
But problem is that store was quite complicated because some shop selling the furniture only, some shop selling the home electric only. Some of them selling the mixed up with anything. So it will be difficult to find what you wanted.
And price was not that reasonable. Because you will find out that new one wasn't that expensive.
If you didn't buy the stuff with carefulness, it will probably break or explode.
From
^_~ Ara
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
vegetarian food for Korean word
When I heard about this, I didn't even come up with 'Chasik juui' which is exactly same meaning as vegetarian.
Because you can't find any vegetarian around any town in Korea. Yes, it will probably exist somewhere but it is very very rare.
That's why I couldn't think of that word.
Korean didn't think of vegetarian food so we mistakenly wrote down the vegetarian food, Bibimbab which is mixed vegetable with rice and put in the mince beef.
There has beef in it but they didn't realized it because not many Korean fully understand English and we don't have many vegetarian.
Yes, there has Buddhist monk. I also couldn't realized it.
So if you are vegetarian and then you wanted to explain to someone, firstly you said them to I'm vegetarian which is Korean for "나는 채식주의입니다. Na-neun Cha-sik-ju-ui ib-ni-da."
Secondly you explain to them food which eaten by Buddhist monk "Su-nim-i muk-neun um-sik ga-tun-gu-yo. 스님이 먹는 음식 같은거요."
Korean don't much use that 'Chasik juui' word and your Korean pronunciation won't much to help. So not many Korean will recogniz it so if you explain about the Buddhist monk's food, it will help to understand by Korean.
From
^_~ Ara
Because you can't find any vegetarian around any town in Korea. Yes, it will probably exist somewhere but it is very very rare.
That's why I couldn't think of that word.
Korean didn't think of vegetarian food so we mistakenly wrote down the vegetarian food, Bibimbab which is mixed vegetable with rice and put in the mince beef.
There has beef in it but they didn't realized it because not many Korean fully understand English and we don't have many vegetarian.
Yes, there has Buddhist monk. I also couldn't realized it.
So if you are vegetarian and then you wanted to explain to someone, firstly you said them to I'm vegetarian which is Korean for "나는 채식주의입니다. Na-neun Cha-sik-ju-ui ib-ni-da."
Secondly you explain to them food which eaten by Buddhist monk "Su-nim-i muk-neun um-sik ga-tun-gu-yo. 스님이 먹는 음식 같은거요."
Korean don't much use that 'Chasik juui' word and your Korean pronunciation won't much to help. So not many Korean will recogniz it so if you explain about the Buddhist monk's food, it will help to understand by Korean.
From
^_~ Ara
Monday, January 12, 2009
Palm Pre hands-on video & T-Mobile G1 vs. iPhone
Palm Pre hands-on video Favorite http://www.viddler.com/explore/engadget/videos/139/13/ by engadget
You should check out the Engadget's T-Mobile G1 video hands-on Favorite http://www.viddler.com/explore/engadget/videos/56/ by engadget
You can differentiate with T-Mobile G1, iPhone and Palm Pre.
T-Mobile G1's web browser was fairly fast.
iPhone's web browser was quite fast.
Palm Pre's web browser was really fast based on this video.
A lot of people thought that Google Android phone can make good competition with iPhone. But it didn't happen.
This video revealed possibility of Palm Pre can make competition with iPhone. Because Palm Pre's user interface looks good and fast response.
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Atonement 2007 - overrated film
I replied the zebrasnake's topic 'Overrated film' which is in imdb.com's Atonement (2007) discussion board.
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I think I will agree most of your comments about the movie, zebrasnake.
I really liked movie until close to ending part which is interviewing the Briony. If they didn't include that part, maybe I can rate them about 6.9 or close to 7 out of 10. Because I thought it was very clever way to telling the story until...
As soon as I was watching the interview scene, I felt that this is all fake even if it is true story.
And then now I did know what wasn't enough about movie when I read differences between the book and the movie from mikuhgtt's explain at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0783233/board/nest/120606384
That differences explain the book was so special but movie is not so special.
Now I can rate them about 6.2 out of 10.
If this movie is one of best movie, why imdb.com rate them as 7.9(out of 10) and 7.3 in rottentomatoes.com.
It is good movie(I probably say it is just not bad movie.) but it isn't best movie yet.
From
^_~ Ara
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I think I will agree most of your comments about the movie, zebrasnake.
I really liked movie until close to ending part which is interviewing the Briony. If they didn't include that part, maybe I can rate them about 6.9 or close to 7 out of 10. Because I thought it was very clever way to telling the story until...
As soon as I was watching the interview scene, I felt that this is all fake even if it is true story.
And then now I did know what wasn't enough about movie when I read differences between the book and the movie from mikuhgtt's explain at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0783233/board/nest/120606384
That differences explain the book was so special but movie is not so special.
Now I can rate them about 6.2 out of 10.
If this movie is one of best movie, why imdb.com rate them as 7.9(out of 10) and 7.3 in rottentomatoes.com.
It is good movie(I probably say it is just not bad movie.) but it isn't best movie yet.
From
^_~ Ara
Sunday, September 07, 2008
wordpress localization for Korean
Korean version was already there but I am just trying to modify a bit. I don’t know this will help to Korean who would like to use the wordpress blog.
- “Translating WordPress « WordPress Codex,” http://codex.wordpress.org/Localizing_WordPress.
- “WordPress in Your Language « WordPress Codex,” http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language.
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Friday, August 01, 2008
Rule Number 6 from 'The Art of Possibility'
I quoted this story from book The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander.
"Two prime ministers are sitting in a room discussing affairs of state. Suddenly a man bursts in, apoplectic with fury, shouting and stamping and banging his fist on the desk. The resident prime minister admonishes him: "Peter," he says, "kindly remember Rule Number 6," whereupon Peter is instantly restored to complete calm, apologizes, and withdraws. The politicians return to their conversation, only to be interrupted yet again twenty minutes later by an hysterical woman gesticulating wildly, her hair flying. Again the intruder is greeted with the words: "Marie, please remember Rule Number 6." Complete calm descends once more, and she too withdraws with a bow and an apology. When the scene is repeated for a third time, the visiting prime minister addresses his colleague: "My dear friend, I've seen many things in my life, but never anything as remarkable as this. Would you be willing to share with me the secret of Rule Number 6?" "very simple," replies the resident prime minister. "Rule Number 6 is 'Don't take yourself so g-damn seriously." "Ah," says his visitor, "that is a fine rule." After a moment of pondering, he inquires, "And what, may I ask, are the other rules?"
"There aren't any."
From
^_~ Ara
"Two prime ministers are sitting in a room discussing affairs of state. Suddenly a man bursts in, apoplectic with fury, shouting and stamping and banging his fist on the desk. The resident prime minister admonishes him: "Peter," he says, "kindly remember Rule Number 6," whereupon Peter is instantly restored to complete calm, apologizes, and withdraws. The politicians return to their conversation, only to be interrupted yet again twenty minutes later by an hysterical woman gesticulating wildly, her hair flying. Again the intruder is greeted with the words: "Marie, please remember Rule Number 6." Complete calm descends once more, and she too withdraws with a bow and an apology. When the scene is repeated for a third time, the visiting prime minister addresses his colleague: "My dear friend, I've seen many things in my life, but never anything as remarkable as this. Would you be willing to share with me the secret of Rule Number 6?" "very simple," replies the resident prime minister. "Rule Number 6 is 'Don't take yourself so g-damn seriously." "Ah," says his visitor, "that is a fine rule." After a moment of pondering, he inquires, "And what, may I ask, are the other rules?"
"There aren't any."
From
^_~ Ara
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
link - Languages by population
http://www.davidpbrown.co.uk/help/top-100-languages-by-population.html
Top 100 Languages by Population
These are the top 100 languages in order of number of first language speakers.
This is from the 13th Edition of the Ethnologue (1996).
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm
Internet World Users by Language - Top 10 Languages
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learning-research-futureofenglish.htm
The Future of English? (1997) By David Graddol
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learning-research-englishnext.htm
English Next (2006) By David Graddol
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/HA28Df01.html
South Asia Jan 28, 2006 -BOOK REVIEW
Whose English is it?
Asian Englishes: Beyond the Canon by Braj B Kachru
Reviewed by Martin A Schell
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-speaking_population
Wikipedia - List of countries by English-speaking population
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/lan_eng_sta-language-english-status
Language Statistics > English status (most recent) by country
http://www.nationmaster.com/red/graph/lan_eng_spe-language-english-speakers&b_map=1
Language Statistics > English speakers (most recent) by country
(probably native speakers only)
http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/languages.htm
The World's Most Widely Spoken Languages
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^_~ Ara
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
reality of Korean's English communication skill
I saw a group which name is Daegu Friendship Club in facebook.com and I was glad about their effort. But, I would like to let them know the reality so I wrote a article here http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=25235250140#/topic.php?uid=25235250140&topic=4887
I wrote this because I would like to help their activities.
Topic name : Please read this, if you are Korean.
I don't know why I am doing this but you have to see the reality of Korean's English skill.
This group's admin, Daegu Central offer the friendship to the Daegu citizens but how is it going to happen? Because foreigners can't communicate with Koreans. That is the truth.
If you don't want to believe me, I will tell you other story. I have been check out a lots of group in facebook but I couldn't find any active group with many Koreans. I know there has a lots of active group, if most of them are foreigners or American-Koreans.
I believe you probably join facebook for learn English so I hope you should learn English properly.
If you are interested in learn English properly, you can see article here http://kr.blog.yahoo.com/asrai21c/
From
^_~ Ara
I wrote this because I would like to help their activities.
Topic name : Please read this, if you are Korean.
I don't know why I am doing this but you have to see the reality of Korean's English skill.
This group's admin, Daegu Central offer the friendship to the Daegu citizens but how is it going to happen? Because foreigners can't communicate with Koreans. That is the truth.
If you don't want to believe me, I will tell you other story. I have been check out a lots of group in facebook but I couldn't find any active group with many Koreans. I know there has a lots of active group, if most of them are foreigners or American-Koreans.
I believe you probably join facebook for learn English so I hope you should learn English properly.
If you are interested in learn English properly, you can see article here http://kr.blog.yahoo.com/asrai21c/
From
^_~ Ara
Sunday, June 01, 2008
funny episode from TV show 'are you smarter than a fifth grader'
dumb blonde american: are you smarter than a fifth grader http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uEP7uti0PDw
Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? Contestant Avis Whitmore from http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WoQccz4VtJY
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^_~ Ara
Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader? Contestant Avis Whitmore from http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WoQccz4VtJY
From
^_~ Ara
World clock with statistics
This is free program which can be put in to the your homepage or websites.
You can check out poodwaddle.com
Poodwaddle.com
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^_~ Ara
You can check out poodwaddle.com
Poodwaddle.com
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^_~ Ara
Thursday, May 15, 2008
WWDC 2008 and Steve Jobs' keynote
Related article One more thing... (WWDC 2008 officially announced) by AlexRADL at iPodtouchfans.com and originally news article from here, apple.com
"This year’s WWDC will showcase two revolutionary development platforms, the ground-breaking innovations of OS X Leopard® and OS X iPhone™, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system. ...
... fully explore the capabilities of the OS X iPhone 2.0 software, including the iPhone SDK and the App Store, a breakthrough way for developers to wirelessly deliver their applications to iPhone and iPod® touch users." from http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/05/13wwdc.html
That's exactly what I have on my mind. You can see my article(unfortunately, I only wrote on Korean.) http://kr.blog.yahoo.com/asrai21c/2656 which I mentioned more supporting on platform like Palm and Windows CE OS and application environment.
From
^_~ Ara
"This year’s WWDC will showcase two revolutionary development platforms, the ground-breaking innovations of OS X Leopard® and OS X iPhone™, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system. ...
... fully explore the capabilities of the OS X iPhone 2.0 software, including the iPhone SDK and the App Store, a breakthrough way for developers to wirelessly deliver their applications to iPhone and iPod® touch users." from http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/05/13wwdc.html
That's exactly what I have on my mind. You can see my article(unfortunately, I only wrote on Korean.) http://kr.blog.yahoo.com/asrai21c/2656 which I mentioned more supporting on platform like Palm and Windows CE OS and application environment.
From
^_~ Ara
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
This is brilliant act from Britain's got talent.
This is brilliant. That's why Amanda said that 'bloody brilliant'.
originally from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA2B5X0LhMY
If you've seen the first series of Britain's got talent, you would be waiting for this.
I don't know what do you think about this brilliant act. This is harmony of western and eastern. If you know much about Indian dance, you will understand what I mean. You can see how same dance can be different each other.
I think I should watch the second series of Britain's got talent.
If you would like to watching HD quality video, you can go here Britains Got Talent: Michael Jackson Suprise HD QUALITY
Britain's got talent homepage : http://talent.itv.com/
Britain's got talent general information on wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain's_Got_Talent
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^_~ Ara
originally from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA2B5X0LhMY
If you've seen the first series of Britain's got talent, you would be waiting for this.
I don't know what do you think about this brilliant act. This is harmony of western and eastern. If you know much about Indian dance, you will understand what I mean. You can see how same dance can be different each other.
I think I should watch the second series of Britain's got talent.
If you would like to watching HD quality video, you can go here Britains Got Talent: Michael Jackson Suprise HD QUALITY
Britain's got talent homepage : http://talent.itv.com/
Britain's got talent general information on wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain's_Got_Talent
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^_~ Ara
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
iPhone can have closed caption movie.
There has capability in iPhone and iPod touch but Apple never give any information on this to anyone. Here is websites.
iTunes Adds Closed Captions by Social Edge
Tutorial of how to make a closed caption by Israel Melendez, Jr.
[Updated: SUCCESS!] Non-Handbrake solution for Subs/Captions by Kneeslasher
Discussion about closed caption in iPhone in Handbrake forum
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^_~ Ara
iTunes Adds Closed Captions by Social Edge
Tutorial of how to make a closed caption by Israel Melendez, Jr.
[Updated: SUCCESS!] Non-Handbrake solution for Subs/Captions by Kneeslasher
Discussion about closed caption in iPhone in Handbrake forum
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^_~ Ara
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
amazon.com moving forward in the gadget business
When I was trying to check the amazon.com's homepage, I saw the letter from the CEO for restocked the Kindle(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindle) which is wireless reading device.
If you know how unusual that amazon.com put the CEO's letter in the their very first page. Have a look at this.
Picture taken from http://www.amazon.com/ at 2:15 29th April 2008.
If you think it is just digital gadget such as smartphone and iphone, you should better think about it again.
Because, device was not the issues here.
What this letter mentioned is that they added 25,000 additional books, blogs, magazines, and newspapers which bringing the total to more than 115,000. A hundred fifteen thousands.
I will just briefly tell you about the history of ebook(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebook) viewer. Almost none of portable gadget succeed in the market, before E-ink came out. E ink (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eink) screen is most comfortable for human eyes-I haven't seen it yet but a lot of people talked about that way.- and feel like paper because it is one of electronic paper technology(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_paper).
So it is possible technology to make new big market.
Whenever I thought about it, I felt that amazon.com was just online version of bookstore. I know their main business was not selling the book any more so they became online shopping mall long time ago.
So they don't have to sell the actual books in the future because they can sell the ebook.
I know it still need a lot of time but it will happen someday.
Kindle product - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FI73MA/ref=amb_link_6750302_1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=gateway-center-column&pf_rd_r=1Z71PJ4PTSF3JRNE32VF&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=389635101&pf_rd_i=507846
From
^_~ Ara
p.s. I skipped a lot of details so some day I will write more about it.
If you know how unusual that amazon.com put the CEO's letter in the their very first page. Have a look at this.
Picture taken from http://www.amazon.com/ at 2:15 29th April 2008.
If you think it is just digital gadget such as smartphone and iphone, you should better think about it again.
Because, device was not the issues here.
What this letter mentioned is that they added 25,000 additional books, blogs, magazines, and newspapers which bringing the total to more than 115,000. A hundred fifteen thousands.
I will just briefly tell you about the history of ebook(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebook) viewer. Almost none of portable gadget succeed in the market, before E-ink came out. E ink (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eink) screen is most comfortable for human eyes-I haven't seen it yet but a lot of people talked about that way.- and feel like paper because it is one of electronic paper technology(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_paper).
So it is possible technology to make new big market.
Whenever I thought about it, I felt that amazon.com was just online version of bookstore. I know their main business was not selling the book any more so they became online shopping mall long time ago.
So they don't have to sell the actual books in the future because they can sell the ebook.
I know it still need a lot of time but it will happen someday.
Kindle product - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FI73MA/ref=amb_link_6750302_1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=gateway-center-column&pf_rd_r=1Z71PJ4PTSF3JRNE32VF&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=389635101&pf_rd_i=507846
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^_~ Ara
p.s. I skipped a lot of details so some day I will write more about it.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
'The Real Korea' from facebook.com's South Korea network 2
originally http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=2245127154&topic=4701
I copied some of the post because facebook.com doesn't keep the post long time.
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Someone replied to your post on Apr 18, 2008 at 7:28 AM
well I can't write well as you. I'm just a English student. And It mean I dont know English very well. And even, I'm not sure I understood your writing.
But I wanna say culture is just culture. Nobody cant change artificiality.
the culture always absorbs other culture. and It changes itself. Not just about foreign people or their culture. Lot of other slang languages are broadcast on TV. And It distory our culture? No I dont think so. It is just changeing. We don't know how it is changeing. And we cant say it's good culture or not. it's just culture.
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You replied to someone's post on Apr 18, 2008 at 7:48 AM
Thanks for reply.
You didn't much understand what I was saying so I won't talk then. But, I think you should know what the exact meaning of 'slang'.
Here it is - Slang consists of words, expressions, and meanings that are informal and are used by people who know each other very well or who have the same interests. (2006, Collins Cobuild dictionary)
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I copied some of the post because facebook.com doesn't keep the post long time.
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Someone replied to your post on Apr 18, 2008 at 7:28 AM
well I can't write well as you. I'm just a English student. And It mean I dont know English very well. And even, I'm not sure I understood your writing.
But I wanna say culture is just culture. Nobody cant change artificiality.
the culture always absorbs other culture. and It changes itself. Not just about foreign people or their culture. Lot of other slang languages are broadcast on TV. And It distory our culture? No I dont think so. It is just changeing. We don't know how it is changeing. And we cant say it's good culture or not. it's just culture.
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You replied to someone's post on Apr 18, 2008 at 7:48 AM
Thanks for reply.
You didn't much understand what I was saying so I won't talk then. But, I think you should know what the exact meaning of 'slang'.
Here it is - Slang consists of words, expressions, and meanings that are informal and are used by people who know each other very well or who have the same interests. (2006, Collins Cobuild dictionary)
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Friday, April 18, 2008
'The Real Korea' from facebook.com's South Korea network
originally http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=2245127154&topic=4701
I copied some of the post because facebook.com doesn't keep the post long time.
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someone wrote on Apr 6, 2008 at 2:29 PM.
Itaewon looks like shit now.
English fills Korea.
Korea is becoming westernized because all these white fucks keep coming in trying to fuck our women.
They come to "teach" english. They come to "learn" about our culture because they "like" our culture.
Yeah right. Look at what happened to Japan. You got white nerds with Japanese names thinking they are more Japanese or asian than asians.
You got American Marines in Korea causing trouble and you got western businesses taking over.
Good Korean land is bought off to the rich white man. Korean women get swindled by the sweet talk that white men are so good at.
Hollywood has made the white man, whether he is a nerd or a fag, a "hot" man.
Look at this. I join the South Korean network, and this place is crawling with rednecks and wiggers and yellow-fevered horny white guys trying to "teach" english tryna get some pussy.
revolution is near muthafuckas
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You replied to post on Apr 11, 2008 at 8:39 AM.
Shall we do some reality check here?
Who blame to who?
Who want to be fuck? Was it white man or (I will borrow your expression.) our women?
Hollywood made the white man as hot man? Who made that kind of brainwash(It wasn't proper expression but if you are Korean, you will understand what I mean.)? Was it hollywood or our Korean broadcast channel?
I will ask very simple question. Why that muthafuckas do that? Because,,, because Korean woman looking(or wanted) for it. It is very simple economic(I don't know what the proper name is.) rule. Why there has product? Because people wanted that product.
If you really want to do something about it, you should go learn more(our real Korean culture and society and real Korea), study more and then teach to the Korean men and women, first.
You can see so many Koreans learn very very bad things and problem is that they don't know that is bad thing. I can't tell you everything(because I have to do something about it.) but I can make a few examples of it. I was shocked when I was watching Korean broadcast.(Because I haven't been in Korea for 6 years and rarely I am watching TV.) Comedian or some entertainer said that 'Oh, my god.' or some show program show some guy using the English name. Have you ever thought about why they doing it?
I can't remember what the name of the show and then they asked some American-Korean entertainer(or who was staying US for long time when he was baby or kid) that what is useful English expression(or similar kind). And you know what he said? 'Bro'(or with something) and then TV showing the 'The fast and furious 2' or something and then repeated a lot of 'Bro' scene. Did you even bother about this? US or UK people complaint about too much slang on their TV but we Korean suggested to use more slang on TV.
Ok. Let's see here. Why the hell people using Korean name as reverse order? Why they do that? Do you even understand why am I say this? If you write the Korean name to English, it sill is Korean name and Korean language. So grammatically, follow the rule of foreign language so your name must be same sequence as Korean. So my name should be always same order like 'Seong pill kon'. It can be change only if they were born in America or immigrant there.
I will make quick example. Gang is river. 'River Han' was used some movie and newspaper. So have you ever seen any newspaper say that "Gang Han"? No, right? Why? Because it is foreign language so follow the same sequence "Han gang". But why don't we use this rule to our name? Why?
That is the reason I say you should learn more. It is nothing to do with foreigner. It is all OUR problem, not theirs.
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someone wrote
13 hours ago.
There are a lot of offensive statements in this thread. In particular, I think that Simon needs to grow up. Blaming everyone else, including your own people, means that you can't take responsibility for yourself and your problems. Maybe someone has treated you harshly for being a Korean and now you are out to get the "liberals." That's great. Nobody is impressed.
If the Koreans didn't want Western people here, they should not be hiring native speakers in droves.
If the Koreans want to participate in the global economy, they need to learn English. This is the only way for a developing country.
I came here because I studied ESL in college and decided to become an ESL teacher. I looked at many countries and decided on Korea because of the pay. I came here for the job, because I want to teach.
I did not come for sex or drinking. I think that it is really disgusting to see so many college graduates using this time to party. It certainly lends to a negative stereotype.
Since I have been here, I have tried to study Korean every day, for survival and because of a genuine interest in Korean language and culture.
The Korean people that I have met have been overwhelmingly kind and friendly to me, probably because I try to speak Korean, dress appropriately, and do not walk around on the streets with a soju bottle in my hand. I have learned to bow to my elders and act in a respectful way, even if someone is treating me with disrespect.
I can't do anything about people who came here to have a vacation from their lives in Western countries and just want to pick up Korean women and drink a year away. Yet I have to face discrimination because of this. The fact is that there are immature people everywhere, not just here. You can chose the make the most of your experiences or not.
It's disappointing. It might be avoided if Koreans tried to hire people who have backgrounds in English or education, people who actually want to be teachers. This might not be economically feasible.
I'm sorry that I don't know more Korean, but I'm learning every day. I'm sorry that I don't understand many aspects of the Korean culture, but I'm learning every day.
The Koreans will find a way to preserve their culture. The world is changing. Everything changes. Get over it and move on.
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You replied to post 17 minutes ago.
I am very glad to hear your story.
Yes, I know I can find a lot of foreigners like you.
Anyway, if you read my previous post, you will know what really problem is. I am really harsh on Korean but truth should be come out. Here, you can't find a lot of Koreans who living in Korea so technically they don't know much about Korean culture.
Secondly, they were too young to know things properly.
Thirdly but most importantly, that person wasn't born or treated like average Koreans. What I mean is that if you met Korean who spoke fluent English, he probably went to US when he was young(like kid or baby). His parents should extremely rich and he never learn normal(average) Koreans lifestyle. So they don't know much about Korea.
You will see a lot of Koreans here thinks that he knew Korea but that was not real Korea. It is their imagination or from the television.
You think I was wrong but you can find very simple example from this post. First page, you can see my post and nobody reply my post but they reply everything else. Why? Because they don't know anything about what I wrote. So what do they know about Korea.
It is sad that Korean do very wrong way to learn English so they will not improve.(You might say they can improve but you almost can't find someone spoke English fluently when he or she started learn English after 20 years old.) Problem is that you almost can't find Korean who explain real Korea and Korean.
That's why I don't really post here because I can see a lots of wrong statements here. And I was too tiring to explain to them. No point to explain also because a lot of them don't even understand.(You can see one good example from my previous post which is Korean name thing and that I wrote here before. At the time, I've got very wrong answer-statement or idea or whatever- from Korean-American or Korean.)
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I copied some of the post because facebook.com doesn't keep the post long time.
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someone wrote on Apr 6, 2008 at 2:29 PM.
Itaewon looks like shit now.
English fills Korea.
Korea is becoming westernized because all these white fucks keep coming in trying to fuck our women.
They come to "teach" english. They come to "learn" about our culture because they "like" our culture.
Yeah right. Look at what happened to Japan. You got white nerds with Japanese names thinking they are more Japanese or asian than asians.
You got American Marines in Korea causing trouble and you got western businesses taking over.
Good Korean land is bought off to the rich white man. Korean women get swindled by the sweet talk that white men are so good at.
Hollywood has made the white man, whether he is a nerd or a fag, a "hot" man.
Look at this. I join the South Korean network, and this place is crawling with rednecks and wiggers and yellow-fevered horny white guys trying to "teach" english tryna get some pussy.
revolution is near muthafuckas
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You replied to post on Apr 11, 2008 at 8:39 AM.
Shall we do some reality check here?
Who blame to who?
Who want to be fuck? Was it white man or (I will borrow your expression.) our women?
Hollywood made the white man as hot man? Who made that kind of brainwash(It wasn't proper expression but if you are Korean, you will understand what I mean.)? Was it hollywood or our Korean broadcast channel?
I will ask very simple question. Why that muthafuckas do that? Because,,, because Korean woman looking(or wanted) for it. It is very simple economic(I don't know what the proper name is.) rule. Why there has product? Because people wanted that product.
If you really want to do something about it, you should go learn more(our real Korean culture and society and real Korea), study more and then teach to the Korean men and women, first.
You can see so many Koreans learn very very bad things and problem is that they don't know that is bad thing. I can't tell you everything(because I have to do something about it.) but I can make a few examples of it. I was shocked when I was watching Korean broadcast.(Because I haven't been in Korea for 6 years and rarely I am watching TV.) Comedian or some entertainer said that 'Oh, my god.' or some show program show some guy using the English name. Have you ever thought about why they doing it?
I can't remember what the name of the show and then they asked some American-Korean entertainer(or who was staying US for long time when he was baby or kid) that what is useful English expression(or similar kind). And you know what he said? 'Bro'(or with something) and then TV showing the 'The fast and furious 2' or something and then repeated a lot of 'Bro' scene. Did you even bother about this? US or UK people complaint about too much slang on their TV but we Korean suggested to use more slang on TV.
Ok. Let's see here. Why the hell people using Korean name as reverse order? Why they do that? Do you even understand why am I say this? If you write the Korean name to English, it sill is Korean name and Korean language. So grammatically, follow the rule of foreign language so your name must be same sequence as Korean. So my name should be always same order like 'Seong pill kon'. It can be change only if they were born in America or immigrant there.
I will make quick example. Gang is river. 'River Han' was used some movie and newspaper. So have you ever seen any newspaper say that "Gang Han"? No, right? Why? Because it is foreign language so follow the same sequence "Han gang". But why don't we use this rule to our name? Why?
That is the reason I say you should learn more. It is nothing to do with foreigner. It is all OUR problem, not theirs.
--------------------------------------------
someone wrote
13 hours ago.
There are a lot of offensive statements in this thread. In particular, I think that Simon needs to grow up. Blaming everyone else, including your own people, means that you can't take responsibility for yourself and your problems. Maybe someone has treated you harshly for being a Korean and now you are out to get the "liberals." That's great. Nobody is impressed.
If the Koreans didn't want Western people here, they should not be hiring native speakers in droves.
If the Koreans want to participate in the global economy, they need to learn English. This is the only way for a developing country.
I came here because I studied ESL in college and decided to become an ESL teacher. I looked at many countries and decided on Korea because of the pay. I came here for the job, because I want to teach.
I did not come for sex or drinking. I think that it is really disgusting to see so many college graduates using this time to party. It certainly lends to a negative stereotype.
Since I have been here, I have tried to study Korean every day, for survival and because of a genuine interest in Korean language and culture.
The Korean people that I have met have been overwhelmingly kind and friendly to me, probably because I try to speak Korean, dress appropriately, and do not walk around on the streets with a soju bottle in my hand. I have learned to bow to my elders and act in a respectful way, even if someone is treating me with disrespect.
I can't do anything about people who came here to have a vacation from their lives in Western countries and just want to pick up Korean women and drink a year away. Yet I have to face discrimination because of this. The fact is that there are immature people everywhere, not just here. You can chose the make the most of your experiences or not.
It's disappointing. It might be avoided if Koreans tried to hire people who have backgrounds in English or education, people who actually want to be teachers. This might not be economically feasible.
I'm sorry that I don't know more Korean, but I'm learning every day. I'm sorry that I don't understand many aspects of the Korean culture, but I'm learning every day.
The Koreans will find a way to preserve their culture. The world is changing. Everything changes. Get over it and move on.
--------------------------------------------
You replied to post 17 minutes ago.
I am very glad to hear your story.
Yes, I know I can find a lot of foreigners like you.
Anyway, if you read my previous post, you will know what really problem is. I am really harsh on Korean but truth should be come out. Here, you can't find a lot of Koreans who living in Korea so technically they don't know much about Korean culture.
Secondly, they were too young to know things properly.
Thirdly but most importantly, that person wasn't born or treated like average Koreans. What I mean is that if you met Korean who spoke fluent English, he probably went to US when he was young(like kid or baby). His parents should extremely rich and he never learn normal(average) Koreans lifestyle. So they don't know much about Korea.
You will see a lot of Koreans here thinks that he knew Korea but that was not real Korea. It is their imagination or from the television.
You think I was wrong but you can find very simple example from this post. First page, you can see my post and nobody reply my post but they reply everything else. Why? Because they don't know anything about what I wrote. So what do they know about Korea.
It is sad that Korean do very wrong way to learn English so they will not improve.(You might say they can improve but you almost can't find someone spoke English fluently when he or she started learn English after 20 years old.) Problem is that you almost can't find Korean who explain real Korea and Korean.
That's why I don't really post here because I can see a lots of wrong statements here. And I was too tiring to explain to them. No point to explain also because a lot of them don't even understand.(You can see one good example from my previous post which is Korean name thing and that I wrote here before. At the time, I've got very wrong answer-statement or idea or whatever- from Korean-American or Korean.)
From
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3G iPhone and some more...
These are quite believable guessing article.
February 11, 2008 - 10:17 A.M. 3G iPhone, best guesses: When? What Price? Specs?
http://blogs.computerworld.com/3g_iphone_best_guesses
February 29, 2008
Apple gears up for June launch of 3G iPhone(http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3460650.ece) by Jonathan Richards
Analysts have suggested that Apple is working towards a mid-year launch date for the much-anticipated 3G iPhone
Those two news article were just guessing but if you surf the Korean websites, you will find that it became fact.
Brett Schlesinger from Lodon, he commented very important thought on second article. He said that owning an iPhone is a user experience not a technical spec. This is the thing I would like to write it for Korean in my future homepage.
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February 11, 2008 - 10:17 A.M. 3G iPhone, best guesses: When? What Price? Specs?
http://blogs.computerworld.com/3g_iphone_best_guesses
February 29, 2008
Apple gears up for June launch of 3G iPhone(http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3460650.ece) by Jonathan Richards
Analysts have suggested that Apple is working towards a mid-year launch date for the much-anticipated 3G iPhone
Those two news article were just guessing but if you surf the Korean websites, you will find that it became fact.
Brett Schlesinger from Lodon, he commented very important thought on second article. He said that owning an iPhone is a user experience not a technical spec. This is the thing I would like to write it for Korean in my future homepage.
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- I am a writer. And very sarcastic one. So if you don't like that kind of things, don't click and read, please. I would like to write anything that can help our society. Have you ever thought about what it makes change the world? Is there any story or movie that touch your life? And you probably can say that that made you changed life.