Monday, March 30, 2009

Konglish Lesson #4

Definitely one of the funniest Konglish of all time...

Konglish of the day:  ING

No, not the insurance company... the suffix of a present participle verb.  I.e. "ing" of verbs like "barfing", "regurgitating", "puking".

I've heard Koreans actually say "I-N-G" when they say something is in progress.  Sometimes they label documents with [...ing]document.doc to indicate that they're in draft form.  Chalk this one up as another creative way to deform the English language.

"The status of the project is I-N-G."

"Yeah, my relationship with my girlfriend is still I-N-G."

"My porn download was I-N-G for like 3 hours!"

1 comment:

  1. 3 hour download for porn? Wow, that must make a very special Wednesday night

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