Spring Waltz: that is bunnies

[lesbiassparrow]

The subtitles continue to entertain. It's a bit bad when I work out that someone is saying that you should be careful and sensitive in dealing with people in love but the subtitles insist otherwise. How I suffer for Daniel Henney. And the astonishingly cute heroine who he won't end up with. But the hero is sort of growing on me too and he does have to deal with mad mum and bonkers fake first love who clearly does not know the meaning of no, so I guess that he deserves someone.

I still can't work out what the subtitles are translating when they have the characters say 'suffer a lot.' They're clearly translating some sort of greeting but I have no idea what. Surely Koreans don't go around telling each other to suffer as a form of hello?

Also if this was on the American telly the slashers would go mad with hero and Philip. There's some very suggestive piano playing scenes... And now a mountain climbing and bandaging hand one.

And since this phrase was used on a subtitle I now really want to use 'that is bunnies' in conversation.

Comments

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Thanks; I love reading posts about languages. It's funny but I think Korean and Japanese are so much easier to understand than Chinese: just by watching all of these soaps I can understand fairly simple conversations in Korean and also get some of the bits of others. But I've watched a lot of Chinese too and I have no idea of how to even break the individual words out.

As for redundancies in language, well Irish is probably of of the most inefficient languages there is in this regard - it's really hard to say anything directly or very quickly, which is why everyone speaks it so fast and you don't pronounce half the word! There isn't even a way to say 'yes' or 'no'; you have to repeat the verb back to someone.

So if I asked do you understand (An dtuigeann tu'?) someone would have to say I understand (tuigim) or I don't understand (Ni thuigim).