Laugh Out Loud Moment At Work Today

HAHA!

from JoeUser Forums
While doing some preview work for a class I would be teaching this morning, I was looking up the Chinese roots of some Korean words so that I could better explain why they mean what they do. Well, I was trying to get the meaning for Ä¡ (öÇ) when I got a pure Korean word I was unfamiliar with as a definition. So, I looked up the pure Korean word º£Ç®´Ù.

Well, as I skimmed the definition, I came to an example sentence -

T¾¾ÀÇ ±Í±¹ ÃàÇÏ ÀÜÄ¡°¡ º£Ç®¾îÁ³´Ù.

The translation of that sentence is "A reception was held in honor of Mr. T who had recently returned from his journey abroad."

I'm not joking. The paper dictionary I use at work is actually a shared source with Yahoo Korea's online dictionary. You can see this sentence at Link for yourself.

I pity the fool that don't click that link.



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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
If you can read Korean but can't actually see the Korean on your screen, change your encoding under "View" on your browser to Korean and it will appear.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Nope, still not working. Could be that I'm on Netscape, though it has a Korean selection for character coding... Could you spell it in SKATS for me?
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
Spoke too soon... got it through the link.
Good party, too. He got some more bling. What else do you get Mr. T?
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
It could be with how I post in Korean on this site. I can't actually type in Korean. Well, I can, but it's a blind hunt and peck method. I never learned the Korean keyboard. What I do is type the SKATS and then use a macro build into my normal.dot file to convert it to Korean. Then I cut and paste to the article here. Could be that since it's just a conversion thing, it's not being picked up as a true Korean font by netscape. I know that I have to manually change my encoding to Korean because even my machine won't recognize the it until I do.
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
change your encoding under "View" on your browser to Korean and it will appear


I did that and I can see the Korean. No problem. That's neat.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
P.S. I'm using internet explorer.