The art of Cosplay, which the Japanese have mastered, for better or worse, and which Koreans are “improving” at, seems to be lost on Americans…. As a former D&D player, I feel qualified to say that I have never seen a bigger group of losers gathered together at one time…
The final report on Hwang has been released. Basically everything he claimed to have done was a complete and total lie….with the exception of cloning an essentially meaningless dog.
Despite lying about nearly everything, falsifying research, engaging in horribly unethical behavior, hiding the truth, giving false hopes and promises, and possibly misusing millions of dollars in government money, People still support the guy.
Following up on my recent dismay at another odd attempt to combine to unrelated words into a third, somehow meaningful, new word, in this case “cinema” and “port” to create “Cineport”, I discuss this and other such linguistic oddities in the audio blog below.
I arrive at the office at 10:00 am today. By 10:05 I was having the following IM conversation with a friend:
Me: Some days I can’t even get to my desk before I start sighing in exasperation.
Friend: oh-oh. what happened?
Me: i walked through the door of my office, looked at the headline of a newspaper on the coffee table while on my way to the water cooler and I saw that Pusan is now a “Cineport.”
Friend: WHAT?!
Friend: which newspaper?
Me: i don’t know… I can go check if you want to know.
Friend: what the hell is a cineport?
Me: CINEMA PORT…. a city with a port and a movie industry.
Friend: oh f–k that’s the funniest thing i’ve heard
Me:
Friend: whose brilliant idea was that?
Me: City hall….
Me: who else?
Friend: if my job now consists of me having to market this fricken region of korea as a cineport i’m going to bitch
Me: well…..
Friend: UB Cineport…they aren’t trying to pass that off as english are they? please tell me it will only remain as konglish and never cross over…
Me: Ah.. the dreaded “UB”…forgot about the ubituitous use of the word “UBiquitious.” nope… for now I have only seen “Cineport” in Korean. Haven’t seen it in English yet, but, like bird flu, it’s only a matter of time.
Friend: hahaha that’s what i fear
Me: Let’s call city hall and tell them to put it in English and to add “UB.” Pusan can be a “UB Cineport.” We will be heros!
Friend: sadly enough they’d love it
Friend: why can’t they just do it in chinese?
Friend: the whole country wants to cozy up to china since they all hate the US now
Friend: that’s my suggestion
Me: Sigh.
