https://blog.plover.com/lang/koreanglish.html
"A great deal of Korean vocabulary has been borrowed from English. For example
here's a sign advertising aerobics.
It says “애어로빅” (ae-ŏ-ro-bik). This is not surprising. You wouldn't expect there
to have been an ancient traditional Korean word for aerobics.
But something that struck me when I was in Korea last year was how often signs
would use borrowed English words even when there was already a perfectly good
word already in Korean. Here's a very typical example:
This is the Samsong Building. There is a Korean word for ‘building” (Wiktionary
says “건물” (gŏn-mul)) but that word isn't used here. Instead, the sign says
“삼송빌딩”, pronounced ‘sam-song bil-ding’."
Via Rixty Dixet.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
