"So Korean dramas are all the rage in lots of countries in Asia. And in China, when they imitate this recurring phrase from the Korean dramas—[Korean...], ‘I love you’—because that's what they do in Korean dramas, they love each other—they repeat it with an affricate."
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Interesting things said in my presence
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other categories found with "tv": kyrgyz (4), weirdness (4), scariness (3), love (2), computers (2)
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[link]
heard: 11 October 2011
[edit] added: 11 October 2011
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[edit] added: 11 October 2011
"Wait, what's this a commercial for? It's a waste of paper and it's inconvenient!"
(screen shows "USPS")
"Oh, of course."
[link]
heard: 7 May 2010
[edit] added: 9 May 2010
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[edit] added: 9 May 2010
"Ой, өчүр рекламаны. Түшүндүк уже: сатылат экен."
[link]
heard: 8 May 2008
[edit] added: 8 May 2008
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[edit] added: 8 May 2008
Тралик: "Түнкү канал эрте көрсөтүлүп калган экен."
мен: "Анткени азыр саат 12ден кийин эч кимде шам жок."
[link]
heard: 19 February 2008
[edit] added: 18 February 2008
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[edit] added: 18 February 2008
[телесынык карап жатканда]
Траллик: "Жакшынакай экен."
мен: "Ал ким?"
Траллик: "Билбейм."
мен: "Бирок аты ким?"
Траллик: "Билбейм."
[жазылып туруп койот]
Траллик: "Айтурган экен."
[link]
heard: 19 February 2008
[edit] added: 19 February 2008
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[edit] added: 19 February 2008
[MTVде уйду соосу көрсөтүлөт]
мен: "Неге саап жатат?"
Траллик: "Саабаса болбойт."
мен: "Жок, сааганын неге көрсөтөт?"
Траллик: "Просто, реклама, билбейм."
[link]
heard: 29 March 2007
[edit] added: 29 March 2007
[edit] added: 29 March 2007
Jonathan: "My favourite translation tool on the internet is to look something up on wikipedia in the source language, and then click the link to the article in the destination language."
Joyce: "Oh yeah, I only ever did that to look up how Star Trek was written in katakana."
star-trek, geekiness, sadness, language, tv, mistranslations, technology, computers, writing, japanese
[comment] [rate] 3/5
[link]
heard: 19 September 2006
[edit] added: 9 October 2006
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[edit] added: 9 October 2006
[TV blares in another apartment]
Rianna: "Wow, someone's TV is up later than we are."
[me]: "Maybe someone is actually up later than us."
Rianna: "Or maybe someone is up way earlier than us."
[link]
heard: 16 August 2005
[edit] added: 16 August 2005
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[edit] added: 16 August 2005
"This should be a warning to all the groups out there—don't write inane lyrics when you're young, because when you're older you'll be performing them on PBS and you'll look like a fool."
[link]
heard: 23 March 2005
[edit] added: 24 March 2005
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[edit] added: 24 March 2005
"I mean, Xena has more sound effects than most asians."
[link]
heard: 0 March 2005
[edit] added: 13 March 2005
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[edit] added: 13 March 2005
McIntosh: "Naked mole rats—that sounds like a sitcom!"
Jackendoff: "Not `naked mall rats'?"
McIntosh: "That's pay-per-view."
[link]
heard: 9 November 2004
[edit] added: 9 November 2004
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[edit] added: 9 November 2004
"The throbbing in your heart? It doesn't go there..."
[link]
heard: 5 May 2004
[edit] added: 5 May 2004
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[edit] added: 5 May 2004
"Nothing is imposible if you can imagine it. That's what being a scientist is all about."
"No, that's what being a magical elf is all about."
[link]
heard: 11 August 2003
[edit] added: 19 August 2003
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[edit] added: 19 August 2003
"That ad is a nightmare—I can't imagine quilting toilet-paper for a living."
[link]
heard: 27 April 2003
[edit] added: 27 April 2003
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[edit] added: 27 April 2003
"I choose to believe what I was programmed to believe."
[link]
heard: 27 April 2003
[edit] added: 27 April 2003
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[edit] added: 27 April 2003
"Mumbo, perhaps; jumbo, perhaps not!"