I am three years older than my younger brother. I did not used to feel that we have generation gap because we have only 3 years difference! However he is still wearing high school uniform but I am not. Could that be a real big reason? Even it’s Korean sometimes I don’t get what he’s saying. I need his explanation. Gosh, all of sudden language scares me. Who guerantees that English is not as fast as Korean’s changing?
For example, ‘Ji-Mot-Mi’ which we say when somebody has been taken insulting pictures and it was posted on-line. If I translate it directly it can say ‘Sorry, I couldn’t protect you’. Do you think somebody who’s studying Korean can understand when he/she is supposed to use this expression?? We really mean that ‘we sorry because we let you be like this and now it’s on-line so it’s kind of too late to fix it. Accept reality’. It takes time little long to make myself clear.
Language goes and changes so fast. So does English. We have to keep up the hard work to catch up with ‘changing one’. Do you happen to know about all of these? I was confused!! (Those are Korean though)
ex) Hmm-Jom-Moo, A-O-An (out of anjoong) etc.