Saturday, April 29, 2006

Garlic Bread??

A frequent source of amusement, is just how wrong Koreans can get it when trying to write things in English. The most worrying example of this are some of the bizarre role-play conversations in the school textbooks. We constantly have to scan through exercises in advance with a red pen and make changes. Can't remember many offhand, but I'll bring it home and post some to show the fantastic English these poor kids are usually taught. Talking of red pens, it's fun to now be a teacher and have access to the dreaded red pen. It's like my sword when marching into battle. All the kids eye it with fear and awe, as they know that it is with this tool that the judgement of "Excellent", "Very Good", "Good", and.....(shudder) "More Practice", will be bestowed upon them. Of course, a more effective sword for battle would be the big sticks the other Korean teachers have, maybe after a certain amount of months we will be considered worthy enough to dish out some punishment to the hooligans.

Anyway, back to the point of the post, Koreans and their dodgy English. The best example to date, are some of the T-Shirts in the local supermarket that make absolutely no sense at all,I'm definitely buying one.

For your amusement, here is the message I found on a half-loaf of bread.....

"The toast of garlic flavor can be experience only by toasting. In a mouth, the flavor of crunchy feeling of a meal and a garlic spreads!"

Isn't that brilliant!? Clearly I had to buy this bread based on this message alone, and it turns out to be just normal bread, with no hint of garlic at all. So I have no idea what it's on about, but that's why this country is great! Completely random!

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