Saturday, April 4, 2009

Konglish Lesson #5

Konglish of the day: overeat (pronounced "o-ba-eeh-teuh")

There is a Korean word for vomiting, but a more commonly used word is "overeat" used as a noun.  People butchered the pronunciation for "overeat" so much that I didn't know it was supposed to be an English word the first few times I heard it.  I had to ask somebody.

"I drank so much last night I did an overeat on my way home."

"I had to give the cab driver extra money because my friend did an overeat in the cab."

"I haven't done an overeat in 13 years!"

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