I'm more familiar with japanese, but I think it's similar. Part of it is honorifics, but there's also things like using the full long versions of verbs and putting desu at the end of a sentence. Explicitly stating things that are implied, things like that. Sort of like "I will go get your meal now, sir" instead of "im gonna grab the food"
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I think what Llama was saying earlier was that reading Korean is exceedingly simple; hangul refers to the written language - their alphabet - not the language itself.
In Korean there's actually a whole series of high forms and low forms as well as honorific language. So, say, you can use honorifics or not depending upon the person you are speaking of, but you may pair these with informal verb endings based upon the person you're speaking to. Also honorifics in Korean are not just like adding sir/madam to a sentence, they're a whole different series of particle endings and verb conjugations and in some cases special words. For instance, the verb 'to sleep' is different if you're talking about yourself sleeping or your grandmother sleeping.
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tl;dr
Fucking honorifics can suck all of the dicks
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...also also I hope that didn't come off as pedantic disagreement with anything you said, Llama, I just like talking about Korean
On the other hand
"배운 문법과 어휘를 활용하여 다양한 상황에서 말하는 연습을 많이 하기 바람."
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the only reason I learned about honorifics was because after about 2 or 3 years of high school japanese they decided to go "alright all of what we have taught you is overly polite bullshit and nobody actually talks like that it's just easier to teach and learn, let's start again"
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I wasn't really disagreeing I don't think! That's what I was afraid I sounded like, though. Sometimes I'm irritable, like a sleepy bear. I don't mean to be, though.
Hey did you know that in Korean you say "I sleep a sleep" 잠을 잡니다 instead of "I sleep"?
Can we all just agree that this is ridiculous?
Who sleeps a sleep?
You also dance a dance but that, while weird, isn't totally baffling.
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how many verb/nouns work like that in english? Dance is the only one I can think of. 'walk the walk and talk the talk' I guess, but they aren't used like that outside of that expression
the only reason I learned about honorifics was because after about 2 or 3 years of high school japanese they decided to go "alright all of what we have taught you is overly polite bullshit and nobody actually talks like that it's just easier to teach and learn, let's start again"
I learned honorifics afterward
I was not surprised virtually no one speaks that way
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It's funny because I've met people like this.
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In Korean there's actually a whole series of high forms and low forms as well as honorific language. So, say, you can use honorifics or not depending upon the person you are speaking of, but you may pair these with informal verb endings based upon the person you're speaking to. Also honorifics in Korean are not just like adding sir/madam to a sentence, they're a whole different series of particle endings and verb conjugations and in some cases special words. For instance, the verb 'to sleep' is different if you're talking about yourself sleeping or your grandmother sleeping.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
Fucking honorifics can suck all of the dicks
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
On the other hand
"배운 문법과 어휘를 활용하여 다양한 상황에서 말하는 연습을 많이 하기 바람."
Four A's and a C for the semester
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
the only reason I learned about honorifics was because after about 2 or 3 years of high school japanese they decided to go "alright all of what we have taught you is overly polite bullshit and nobody actually talks like that it's just easier to teach and learn, let's start again"
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Hey did you know that in Korean you say "I sleep a sleep" 잠을 잡니다 instead of "I sleep"?
Can we all just agree that this is ridiculous?
Who sleeps a sleep?
You also dance a dance but that, while weird, isn't totally baffling.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
how many verb/nouns work like that in english? Dance is the only one I can think of. 'walk the walk and talk the talk' I guess, but they aren't used like that outside of that expression
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What spring does with the cherry trees.
I learned honorifics afterward
I was not surprised virtually no one speaks that way
that's mildly underwhelming
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oxes.
One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, yet the plural of moose should never be
meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice; yet the plural of house is houses, not
hice.
If the plural of man is always called men, why shouldn't the plural of pan be called
pen?
f I spoke of my foot and show you my feet, and I give you a boot, would a pair be
called beet?
If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth, why shouldn't the plural of booth be
called beeth?
Then one may be that, and three would be those, yet hat in the plural would never be
hose and the plural of cat is cats, not cose.
We speak of a brother and also of brethren, but though we say mother, we never say
methren.
Then the masculine pronouns are he, his and him, but imagine the feminine, she, shis
and shim.