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eddis-not-eeddis · 1 year

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I had a major blond moment the other day. My coworker and I were talking about what we were going to do after we got off shift and I handed him my shopping list. He looked down at it and went “what the heck is this?” and it took me a moment to clock that the list I’d handed him was written in Korean, and your average American can’t read Hangul.

#In my defense it was slightly less stupid than it sounds #Most of the items on the list were pronounced the same way as their English counterparts #or very nearly so #For instance 젤 펜 is just “gel pen” and it is pronounced the same way #커피 for coffee (kopi—which a lot of my family already says instead of coffee)#Etc.#(dog food was the outlier)#So I looked down at a list with coffee and gel pens among other things and couldn’t figure out what his deal was #(I thought at first that maybe he thought the different items were weird to buy together or something)

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