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I've had elementary students who don't know that Australia is "호주" in Korean.

Apparently, most Korean textbooks teach it as "오스트레일리아".

Half of my students do not know about Harry Potter.  Good to see this craze finally dying.

Yes but fortunately, they'll be able to survive on an endless diet of woke super heroes from now until they reach maturity.

Some of them have even not heard of Michael Jackson.

My university students had never heard of Madonna the other day, and she's still alive.  And no, I didn't expect them to, or think that they should, before DeMartino butts in, and I wouldn't expect American students to have heard of Seo Taiji either. 

Australia definitely is a proper noun. There's no translatable words in it. hahaha I don't understand the Hoju thing.

Insofar as I know, it's actually unknown why Australia is "호주".  It's taken from the Chinese characters "濠州" (Trench country, or canal country), but weirdly enough is transliterated using the Japanese pronunciation.

This article phrases "wtf?" in an intelligent way, and along the way actually gives a pretty convincing reason why the USA is "미국" here in Korea. 

Quote from: CO2 on November 20, 2019, 07:52:41 am

Australia definitely is a proper noun. There's no translatable words in it. hahaha I don't understand the Hoju thing.

Insofar as I know, it's actually unknown why Australia is "호주".  It's taken from the Chinese characters "濠州" (Trench country, or canal country), but weirdly enough is transliterated using the Japanese pronunciation.

This article phrases "wtf?" in an intelligent way, and along the way actually gives a pretty convincing reason why the USA is "미국" here in Korea. 

Such a teacher's pet!! 

Actually, this morning I checked on this as I asked the Korean teacher when we were at the national tournament and he checked it as he wasn't too sure.  So I did a search on 호주는 왜 호주 인가요? and it came up with an article that seems to explain it, that it has the roots in Chinese/Japanese.  The Chinese is 澳州 which sounds like 'aozo' and the Japanese is 豪 州 which sounds like 'gō shū'.  But why now in textbooks they abandoned it for 오스트레일리아I have no idea.  Maybe it's easier just to say 'Hoju'. 

동경 is SinoKorean, so is of Chinese origin and means 'another capital east of the country' but has been used for quite a few places. 

I read that a lot of Koreans prefer Hoju because 오스트레일리아 is "easily confused with 'Austria' "

I have a Korean friend who's a tour guide and he was telling me about the 7-night 8-day tour he'd just done in Europe that involved England, France, Italy, Germany and Australia.  I didn't feel the need to correct him, so kept the chuckling internally. 

Quote from: kyndo on December 05, 2019, 12:41:54 pm

Quote from: CO2 on November 20, 2019, 07:52:41 am

Australia definitely is a proper noun. There's no translatable words in it. hahaha I don't understand the Hoju thing.

Insofar as I know, it's actually unknown why Australia is "호주".  It's taken from the Chinese characters "濠州" (Trench country, or canal country), but weirdly enough is transliterated using the Japanese pronunciation.

This article phrases "wtf?" in an intelligent way, and along the way actually gives a pretty convincing reason why the USA is "미국" here in Korea. 

Such a teacher's pet!! 

Actually, this morning I checked on this as I asked the Korean teacher when we were at the national tournament and he checked it as he wasn't too sure.  So I did a search on 호주는 왜 호주 인가요? and it came up with an article that seems to explain it, that it has the roots in Chinese/Japanese.  The Chinese is 澳州 which sounds like 'aozo' and the Japanese is 豪 州 which sounds like 'gō shū'.  But why now in textbooks they abandoned it for 오스트레일리아I have no idea.  Maybe it's easier just to say 'Hoju'. 

동경 is SinoKorean, so is of Chinese origin and means 'another capital east of the country' but has been used for quite a few places. 

A lot of words are borrowed from the Chinese/Hanja, which usually means the concept/name has been around for a long time (like over 100 years). New words that sound more English are again loan words, usually from English, in the last 100 years the Anglo-sphere has been the leader in new innovations. The reason why they use whatever word over another word is based on when it entered the language, and I guess current language 'fashion'.

There are conservative, and liberal, language forces that try to force their preferred word over the other. And it's just a matter of who wins the word battle. Some examples are 선전 vs 광고 vs cf, or 열쇠 vs 키, or차동차 vs 카, or 양복 vs 정장...

Quote from: Ronnie Omelettes on December 05, 2019, 02:51:41 pm

I have a Korean friend who's a tour guide and he was telling me about the 7-night 8-day tour he'd just done in Europe that involved England, France, Italy, Germany and Australia.  I didn't feel the need to correct him, so kept the chuckling internally. 

Did he see the Warrnambool Boys Choir?

I made a general knowledge quiz, just to see what my students know, and was surprised that at least a few kids in every class could name Bob Ross.
One of the other things in the quiz was a picture of floppy disks, and not a single student knew what those were. The first thing they guessed was "post-it notes?"

I made a general knowledge quiz, just to see what my students know, and was surprised that at least a few kids in every class could name Bob Ross.
One of the other things in the quiz was a picture of floppy disks, and not a single student knew what those were. The first thing they guessed was "post-it notes?"

Someone 3D printed the "save" icon!