i have no classes today because it's sports day. my office is right near the gym, and because of the rain they've moved sports day from outside to inside the gym.i'm trying to study for a korean-language test i have in 2 weeks and it is SO. DAMN. LOUD.and i think i've heard every song by TWICE at least 394 times in the last 90 minutes since school started.why does everything in this country have to be done at 537 decibels? even in class when we play songs or stuff off the textbook CD my co-teachers will blast the volume so loudly that it literally hurts my ears. koreans genetically have a higher rate of myopia, do they have a higher rate of hearing problems too? or maybe they just get permanent hearing damage when they're younger from the sheer loudness of everything around them that they can't hear properly for the rest of their lives and thus it's a viscous circle of having to have everything at maximum volume all the time.
Quote from: kobayashi on May 10, 2017, 09:26:26 ami have no classes today because it's sports day. my office is right near the gym, and because of the rain they've moved sports day from outside to inside the gym.i'm trying to study for a korean-language test i have in 2 weeks and it is SO. DAMN. LOUD.and i think i've heard every song by TWICE at least 394 times in the last 90 minutes since school started.why does everything in this country have to be done at 537 decibels? even in class when we play songs or stuff off the textbook CD my co-teachers will blast the volume so loudly that it literally hurts my ears. koreans genetically have a higher rate of myopia, do they have a higher rate of hearing problems too? or maybe they just get permanent hearing damage when they're younger from the sheer loudness of everything around them that they can't hear properly for the rest of their lives and thus it's a viscous circle of having to have everything at maximum volume all the time.I find that my wife has the volume up way too loud for any Korean TV channel but instantly turns it down when I watch any western TV show at a reasonable volume because it's too "loud".
I'm thinking I may want to pack it in half way through my contract. I can't even anymore. Also listening to my CT teach the kids, "May I shit here?" is driving me nuts.
so i'm bored and actually did some research on this.this study found that 37.4% of koreans 12 years or older have hearing losshttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28196098this one found that the hearing loss rate was 22.73%https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25216153so around one-quarter to one-third of Koreans have hearing loss.compare that to around 15% for Americans, and koreans definitely do in fact have impaired hearing compared to the US, at leasthttps://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/statistics/quick-statistics-hearing
Quote from: kobayashi on May 10, 2017, 11:22:04 amso i'm bored and actually did some research on this.this study found that 37.4% of koreans 12 years or older have hearing losshttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28196098this one found that the hearing loss rate was 22.73%https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25216153so around one-quarter to one-third of Koreans have hearing loss.compare that to around 15% for Americans, and koreans definitely do in fact have impaired hearing compared to the US, at leasthttps://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/statistics/quick-statistics-hearingloud noise begets hearing loss begets louder noise begets more hearing loss
It is the same with the volume on the ringtones and message alerts. On full power. If it isn't full power on everything, you're not going to hear it or notice it. Like the supermarkets that have the guy shouting into his microphone about the things on sale, on absolute full whack so much so the feedback makes it almost unintelligible. I have sensitive hearing and there is nothing more likely to turn me off something than loud noise. Korea is an unbelievably noisy country.Yes i have sensitive hearing too and i hate all the loudness i hear here. So many PA systems at street festivals are ear blistering loud or the election trucks and sprukers in supermarkets selling things. I remember when we used to have Kims Club in my town and they always played the worst unrecognizable western pop music that i had never heard before and had the loudest announcements i have ever heard. People just seemed to be cool with it all.
Ezekiel 12:51
Quote from: sbk on May 10, 2017, 12:03:04 pmIt is the same with the volume on the ringtones and message alerts. On full power. If it isn't full power on everything, you're not going to hear it or notice it. Like the supermarkets that have the guy shouting into his microphone about the things on sale, on absolute full whack so much so the feedback makes it almost unintelligible. I have sensitive hearing and there is nothing more likely to turn me off something than loud noise. Korea is an unbelievably noisy country.Yes i have sensitive hearing too and i hate all the loudness i hear here. So many PA systems at street festivals are ear blistering loud or the election trucks and sprukers in supermarkets selling things. I remember when we used to have Kims Club in my town and they always played the worst unrecognizable western pop music that i had never heard before and had the loudest announcements i have ever heard. People just seemed to be cool with it all.SpruikerFrom our crowdsourced Open Dictionary. (Australian English) someone who tries to persuade people to buy something, use a service, etc often in a dishonest or exaggerated way. Did you mean this? Or did you misspell speaker? hahahahaha
Quote from: CO2 on May 10, 2017, 11:56:42 amEzekiel 12:51Not sure I get this one. A joke? Ezekiel chapter 12 only goes up to verse 28.
Quote from: donovan on May 10, 2017, 11:55:23 amQuote from: kobayashi on May 10, 2017, 11:22:04 amso i'm bored and actually did some research on this.this study found that 37.4% of koreans 12 years or older have hearing losshttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28196098this one found that the hearing loss rate was 22.73%https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25216153so around one-quarter to one-third of Koreans have hearing loss.compare that to around 15% for Americans, and koreans definitely do in fact have impaired hearing compared to the US, at leasthttps://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/statistics/quick-statistics-hearingloud noise begets hearing loss begets louder noise begets more hearing loss and more hearing loss begat aids, hearing aids. and this aid begat battery sales. Ezekiel 12:51
SpruikerFrom our crowdsourced Open Dictionary. (Australian English) someone who tries to persuade people to buy something, use a service, etc often in a dishonest or exaggerated way. Did you mean this? Or did you misspell speaker? hahahahaha
Quote from: CO2 on May 10, 2017, 12:06:02 pmSpruikerFrom our crowdsourced Open Dictionary. (Australian English) someone who tries to persuade people to buy something, use a service, etc often in a dishonest or exaggerated way. Did you mean this? Or did you misspell speaker? hahahahaha Funnily enough, both "spruiker" and "speaker" have Germanic roots. Probably from the Dutch "Spraak, spreek, and spreuk" which are variation of "speech" or "to speak".
12:51 is the time my voiceFound the words i sought...Is it this stage I want?J. Casablancas 2:4
Quote from: CO2 on May 10, 2017, 12:13:15 pm12:51 is the time my voiceFound the words i sought...Is it this stage I want?J. Casablancas 2:4A Lil' B song? You should become a rapper- Lil' C.