RANTING/VENTING MEGATHREAD 3.0

is it in the contract that you have to attend? just make an excuse, say you can't go

Finally time for the big hospital visit that 1.5 months of clinic visits (all of which only prescribed medicine like it was a guessing game) has led to.

- Go to the suggested hospital last weekend, only to be told the kind of doctor I need isn't in that day. Gotta go to the other hospital on the other side of town.
- Get there and get put on intensive care. Get several shots and other procedures done over the course of three hours. I'm told to come back in a week.
- Go today, and the doctor tells me he'll prescribe medicine ( ) and to come back in a week.
- The nurse tells me to go to the pharmacy. I go to the one across the hall. The pharmacist says I have to pay for the meds at the office. I go back to the office. She says I have to pay at the pharmacy. I go back. The pharmacist tells me to use the random machine the nurse never mentioned to pay for the medication. He also tells me that I have to go to a different pharmacy to get the meds (Crazy that a major hospital doesn't carry everything  ).
- I go back to my neighborhood (in the pouring rain) and go to my usual pharmacy. They don't carry the medicine and tell me to go to the pharmacy on the 1st floor of the building. I go down there, and they don't have it either. They tell me to go to another clinic a few blocks away. I go there and finally get the medicine (is there like a specific place for specific types of medicines????  ).
- After all that is said and done, I still had to walk to school today in the rain.

TLDR - Korea has given me the worst medical experience of my entire life. Some of it can be attributed to miscommunication sure, but this is absurd. It's a good thing it's so much cheaper than back home.

Finally time for the big hospital visit that 1.5 months of clinic visits (all of which only prescribed medicine like it was a guessing game) has led to.

- Go to the suggested hospital last weekend, only to be told the kind of doctor I need isn't in that day. Gotta go to the other hospital on the other side of town.
- Get there and get put on intensive care. Get several shots and other procedures done over the course of three hours. I'm told to come back in a week.
- Go today, and the doctor tells me he'll prescribe medicine ( ) and to come back in a week.
- The nurse tells me to go to the pharmacy. I go to the one across the hall. The pharmacist says I have to pay for the meds at the office. I go back to the office. She says I have to pay at the pharmacy. I go back. The pharmacist tells me to use the random machine the nurse never mentioned to pay for the medication. He also tells me that I have to go to a different pharmacy to get the meds (Crazy that a major hospital doesn't carry everything  ).
- I go back to my neighborhood (in the pouring rain) and go to my usual pharmacy. They don't carry the medicine and tell me to go to the pharmacy on the 1st floor of the building. I go down there, and they don't have it either. They tell me to go to another clinic a few blocks away. I go there and finally get the medicine (is there like a specific place for specific types of medicines????  ).
- After all that is said and done, I still had to walk to school today in the rain.

TLDR - Korea has given me the worst medical experience of my entire life. Some of it can be attributed to miscommunication sure, but this is absurd. It's a good thing it's so much cheaper than back home.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JtEkUmYecnk

^ That's more accurate than you might think

I just don't get it. My CT is aware of my ongoing medical issue. I had to come into school even after my visit to the hospital on Monday. She asks me if I can change the time of my next appointment, even though the time slots weren't flexible at all. And now she wants me to change it from 9:30 next Monday to 11:30, that way I can teach one class 1st period (only showing a movie, mind you) and then be off to the hospital across town.

Just let me rest dammit 

Don't try to ****** lecture me that the word "panties" is most appropriately used to refer to all underwear. If that's how you want to use it in Korea, fine, I'm not going to argue with you, but don't try to tell the rest of the English-speaking world how they should use their own gawddamn word. INCLUDING HOW IT SHOULD BE PRONOUNCED WTFUCKITYFUCKFUCK

Me: This is a hot dog. *Shows the American style hot dog*
Student: No teacher. THIS is hot dog. *Shows the Korean hot dog which is a glorified corn dog*

I feel ya Chinguetti...

a glorified corn dog*

and this is a glorious corn dog

a glorified corn dog*

and this is a glorious corn dog

Heart disease on a stick.

a glorified corn dog*

and this is a glorious corn dog

Heart disease on a stick.

Not complete without the sugar.

a glorified corn dog*

and this is a glorious corn dog

Heart disease on a stick.

Adding corn to something never helps.

Don't try to ****** lecture me that the word "panties" is most appropriately used to refer to all underwear. If that's how you want to use it in Korea, fine, I'm not going to argue with you, but don't try to tell the rest of the English-speaking world how they should use their own gawddamn word. INCLUDING HOW IT SHOULD BE PRONOUNCED WTFUCKITYFUCKFUCK

I might have some sympathy for this if not for the west, and especially America's record of utterly butchering everything. We take words from around the world and change their meaning in English, then insist the rest of the world that they learn it that way.

English teacher to Italian students: "You're saying it wrong. It's Rome, not Roma." 

This is part of the joy of cross-cultural language exchange- stuff like this happens and we get some interesting and amusing results. Lighten up.

Don't try to ****** lecture me that the word "panties" is most appropriately used to refer to all underwear. If that's how you want to use it in Korea, fine, I'm not going to argue with you, but don't try to tell the rest of the English-speaking world how they should use their own gawddamn word. INCLUDING HOW IT SHOULD BE PRONOUNCED WTFUCKITYFUCKFUCK

I might have some sympathy for this if not for the west, and especially America's record of utterly butchering everything. We take words from around the world and change their meaning in English, then insist the rest of the world that they learn it that way.

English teacher to Italian students: "You're saying it wrong. It's Rome, not Roma." 

This is part of the joy of cross-cultural language exchange- stuff like this happens and we get some interesting and amusing results. Lighten up.

If an Italian told an American that it's called Roma, no one but very very stupid, would argue. Your example and argument is terrible.

And in English the city is called Rome. That is the correct English pronunciation.

Don't try to ****** lecture me that the word "panties" is most appropriately used to refer to all underwear. If that's how you want to use it in Korea, fine, I'm not going to argue with you, but don't try to tell the rest of the English-speaking world how they should use their own gawddamn word. INCLUDING HOW IT SHOULD BE PRONOUNCED WTFUCKITYFUCKFUCK

I might have some sympathy for this if not for the west, and especially America's record of utterly butchering everything. We take words from around the world and change their meaning in English, then insist the rest of the world that they learn it that way.

English teacher to Italian students: "You're saying it wrong. It's Rome, not Roma." 

This is part of the joy of cross-cultural language exchange- stuff like this happens and we get some interesting and amusing results. Lighten up.

Rome and Roma share the same meaning, and I don't think chinguetti would ever tell an Italian she was saying it wrong.

But your right on the last part. I rather like the clever ways Koreans have rebranded panties.

This all reminds me of a nickname a kid made for me a couple years back. from 도노반 to 도 노-빤스. Cute little f*cker. I got him back though~

Don't try to ****** lecture me that the word "panties" is most appropriately used to refer to all underwear. If that's how you want to use it in Korea, fine, I'm not going to argue with you, but don't try to tell the rest of the English-speaking world how they should use their own gawddamn word. INCLUDING HOW IT SHOULD BE PRONOUNCED WTFUCKITYFUCKFUCK

I might have some sympathy for this if not for the west, and especially America's record of utterly butchering everything. We take words from around the world and change their meaning in English, then insist the rest of the world that they learn it that way.

English teacher to Italian students: "You're saying it wrong. It's Rome, not Roma." 

This is part of the joy of cross-cultural language exchange- stuff like this happens and we get some interesting and amusing results. Lighten up.

With all due respect, this isn't just about how a city's name is pronounced in different parts of the world. This is about commonly used vocabulary in a completely different language getting redefined to suit a person's ego.

It's true, it can be interesting and amusing to see how other cultures adopt foreign words. Language is always evolving in part due to outside influences. English itself is a major hybrid with a long, long history. I don't have a problem with that. I don't get miffed over konglish, either.

I DO have a problem with some people's attitudes over it, though. Folks approaching ME and asking ME a question about the common use of an English word in America, disagreeing with what I tell them about it, going on to lecture me about the "correct" way to use the word and that this is how Americans should use the word, and then getting angry with and disrespectful towards me when I disagree with them are just ****** annoying. Konglish is not the basis for the English language, it's the other way around, and it shouldn't be used as a dick-measuring stick because it just makes you look insane.

There is a difference between general ignorance and flat-out pigheadedness. I don't care what nationality or ethnicity you are, you've got your ass in over your head if you're going to start a semantics argument with a native speaker over their own language.

The Korean use of "Metropolitan" and "vinyl" also causes confusion.

In Korean English, "Metropolitan City" is part of the formal name of a city, whereas elsewhere it means "and surrounding area".

"Vinyl" in Korean English is soft plastic, regardless of chemical formula, whereas elsewhere it refers to specific chemical compositions, regardless of softness.

I guess the question is, "Is Korean English a dielect, or are these just errors?"

"Vinyl" in Korean English is soft plastic, regardless of chemical formula, whereas elsewhere it refers to specific chemical compositions, regardless of softness.

Vinyl is specifically "plastic bag" here, made even harder to comprehend because they say it 비닐 rather than "Vㅏ이늘". Does anybody in the West say vinyl for anything except vinyl records these days?

Does anybody in the West say vinyl for anything except vinyl records these days?

For renovating, home materials and construction, yes.

Does anybody in the West say vinyl for anything except vinyl records these days?

For renovating, home materials and construction, yes.

아 맞다

"Vinyl" in Korean English is soft plastic, regardless of chemical formula, whereas elsewhere it refers to specific chemical compositions, regardless of softness.

Vinyl is specifically "plastic bag" here, made even harder to comprehend because they say it 비닐 rather than "Vㅏ이늘". Does anybody in the West say vinyl for anything except vinyl records these days?

Usually part of a more specific formulation; PVC pipe, PVA glue, etc.

Also, it's not specifically 'plastic bag.' It's, like waygook.org user JNM said, pretty much any soft, plastic or plastic-like substance. Oddly enough, records are not referred to as vinyl.

바이늘

a glorified corn dog*

and this is a glorious corn dog

I heard about these before I came to Korea--obviously via messenger pigeon--and was really looking forward to giving it a go.  After a few weeks, I see a stall in Dongdaemun market, and ...

...was quite disappointed.