High School - Konglish

[brittanymai]

I really enjoyed the lesson as well as most of the students... but some of them found it offensive??!

Thanks anyways!

[SUTIIVE]

This is a great selection of examples.  I will teach this somehow but maybe break it down a bit.  So much for them to take in and also they will feel quite demoralised after such a hammering of their own language (in a way). 

Also: Success is not the result of spontaneous combustions.  You must set yourself on fire.

What's wrong with this?!  I think it's a great description of success!  You can't just wait for your success to spontaneously combust, you must set your own success on fire!  Love it!  Haha. 

[gato_esl]

Why are the files I try to download coming up index.php?   I used to be able to download files pretty easily here.

[emingwangju]

This is such a great idea--especially love the photos of the outlandish sayings on the tees commonly found at Korean clothing stores. I noticed that a lot of my students misuse English expressions, not realizing that it's actually "Konglish."

[elzoog]

Alright, I'm again unsure if this will actually add anything to the discussion above, but I was thinking about this again last night and I think I've found part of the kernel of why this irritates me so much. 

I think the original powerpoint reveals a disdain for Konglish.  I think this only happened/happens because people don't realize that Konglish IS Korean. It's part of the Korean language, and this means that "experts" of English have no right to tell Korean speakers how they can and can't appropriate English for use in their own language.  I can entirely understand why some Korean teachers were offended by this powerpoint, which basically takes a dump on part of their language.

I don't believe this was an intentional offence, and I'm sure it just arose from a misunderstanding about what exactly Konglish is, and a misguided attempt to "repair" what was seen as simple misuse of English.  Konglish IS NOT English, and it shouldn't be "corrected" by misinformed albeit well-intentioned teachers of English.

I don't want to deride the original poster, and I'm sure they were well-intentioned, but I want to strongly encourage people to not take this powerpoint and use it as is, but possibly modify it so that it more properly matches the reality of Konglish, as I mentioned in my post above. 

Sorry about the second rant, but I really feel it's important for people to understand this, so as not to be disrespectful of our host culture and its language.

I agree with you that konglish is a part of Korean and not actual English.   However, this distinction is normally confusing to Koreans that think that "one piece" is the correct name for a woman's dress.  Or that "arbeit" is the correct word for a part time job.  If Koreans want to talk to actual English speakers, then they are going to have to avoid using these kinds of words if they want to be understood.

Having said that, SF is not strictly konglish.   I am up in the air regarding ID since I think I have heard "What's your ID?" in conversations with other English speakers.  I think there should be some effort to remove certain words from the list of konglish words, unless you want to include "tire" for that thing you put on the wheel of a car as a konglish word.

[NYConn]

Great lesson. Presented the first half of the powerpoint, leaving out the sign typos etc. Capped off the lesson with Konglish jeopardy, which I found from another topic in this forum.

All of my classes (rare) found it relevant, educational, and ultimately fun. Thanks for posting it.