27.1.11
Hail to the Pretendership
This post will feature insightful comments on cultural differences. If you neither see the insights nor the need for differences you're basically a douche, and not my friend, in the French sense.
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You had me at "chin strap". This was funny. REALLY funny. I always hated French numbers when I was learning them in high school. Ridiculously absurd.
ReplyDeleteKeep on vlogging :)
HA! You have to be the best vlogger I've come across so far. That was hilarious.
ReplyDeleteOr, a silly asshole!
ReplyDeleteYou always make me laugh.
Hahaha, that was fantastic!
ReplyDeleteI would pretty much KILL for a pull chain toilet as opposed to the squatters here in Korea.
Drunk + squatter toilet = sad time city
Korean phone numbers are 11 numbers long. I can barely remember my own phone number most days.
Korea also has two number systems. One that I know up to the number four in (haha, go me), and the other one I can count up to a bajillion, or whatever.
The one I managed to remember, however, is basically all multiplication and adding.
You have 1-10 (il, ee, sam, sa, oh, yuk, chil, pal, gu, ship), and then 11-19 are all 10+1 (ship-il) 10+2 (ship-ee), etc.
Twenty is 2x10 (ee-ship), then 21 (ee-ship-il)-29 (ee-ship-gu) is 2x10+1 (ee-ship-il) 2x10+2 (ee-ship-ee), etc... and that goes for 20 (ee-ship)-99 (gu-ship-gu).
Past 100 (baek), things get ridiculous.
For example, 297 would be 2x100+9x10+7 (ee-baek-gu-ship-chil [it's not a number, it's a friggin sentence!]).
1000 is chon, and you only need it for 1000 (chon) - 9000 (gu-chon), and it's the same as 100... so, 6483 would be 6x1000+4x100+8x10+3 (yuk-chon-sa-baek-pal-ship-sam).
10 000 is man. So, 59732 would be 5x10 000+9x1000+7x100+3x10+2 (oh-man-gu-chon-chil-baek-sam-ship-ee).
It should be noted that these are the numbers that are used for money. So, when you ask someone how much something is, if it's over 10 000 won, you have to listen to all of those numbers. And, most people who work in stores say it lightning fast, resulting in me staring blankly at them.
And then my students make fun of me for the fact that it takes me forever to figure out what I have to say for the number I need to say in Korean.
Sorry for the impromptu Korean number lesson, haha! I was trying to find out the price of train tickets earlier today, and I was having a hell of a time deciphering the numbers properly, and it resultantly made me go off on a tangent on your blog...
France is strange. But you know what's stranger? NOT putting your toilet paper in the toilet. WHAT IS UP WITH THAT EGYPT?
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ReplyDeleteI would really like a separate room for a toilet. People would stop peeing the toilet while I'm the shower like guerrilla warfare. I'm off to google what couplets look like on French phones.
Have a good one!
And here I thought it was my last name that made me french, and now I know it's the way I eat my corn. I cant wait to go home.
ReplyDeleteThis was pure genius, and also why I nominated and voted for you as best vlogger of EVER. Of the whole entire universe and definitely of France.
ReplyDeleteJoke-a-cola, indeed.
Lorraine
Dude. You're fantastic. I also put a bra on my head sometimes, but it is because it makes me look like a bat and I think that is cool. Now that I know it protects me from aliens, I'm thinking wearing a bra on my head in public on most days would be the thing to do.
ReplyDeleteWhitney
It's possible that you are my favorite person.
ReplyDeleteFirst though.... IS SHE WEARING A BRA ON HER HEAD??
So awesome!
ReplyDeleteThere is a book you must read immediately (if you haven't already). French or Foe. Go pick it up - go now ;)
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