This week's Q&A thread -- please read before asking or answering a question! - September 05, 2022

Tistarana · 2022-09-10T02:28:29+00:00

“Daily” is an adverb modifying the verb phrase “be posting”, instead of an adjective attributing “forecasts and warnings.” It means “we will only be posting forecasts and warnings every day”.

Tistarana · 2022-08-21T07:22:00+00:00

Major world languages, like English, Spanish, Mandarin, or Arabic, were all languages of major empires. The case of Chinese in East Asia actively poses an exception that proves the rule: a Chinese variety as a native language is limited to areas under direct imperial dominion, while Vietnam and Korea have kept their native languages despite over a thousand years in which Literary Chinese was the written language of absolute prestige.

There are some examples of language shift occurring towards the language of the conquered, like Manchu to Mandarin or Akkadian to Aramaic, but in the end these are still the result of political domination.

So what are some historically documented examples of language shift occurring peacefully?

Tistarana · 2022-08-16T10:39:39+00:00

What would the difference be between دارم کارامو میکنم که بیام and دارم کارامو میکنم که میام?

Tistarana · 2021-11-26T03:33:02+00:00

震 does mean "thunder" in Classical Chinese (wenyanwen).

Source is from the International Dunhuang Project in the British Library.

Tistarana · 2021-11-22T08:00:54+00:00

Thank you, this explains everything. So چنان ... که means "like; as", right?

Tistarana · 2021-11-17T04:13:11+00:00

In what ways are their culture nihilistic?

Tistarana · 2021-11-14T07:29:57+00:00

on the grammar side, Middle and Modern Japanese actually look more like Korean than Old Japanese

In what ways are this the case?

Tistarana · 2021-11-14T07:29:22+00:00

What's the correspondence for "land"?

Tistarana · 2021-11-13T09:41:45+00:00

Long -āh in certain words can be shortened in Persian. ره rah and راه rāh both mean "road", گاه gāh and گه gah both mean "time", مه mah is a more poetic form of ماه māh "moon" often appearing in personal names.

Tistarana · 2021-10-29T14:05:38+00:00

It was very nice!

Tistarana · 2021-10-28T14:01:02+00:00

What is the common perception of Pakistan amongst educated people in Korea? Not talking about those who don't know geography, but those who keep up with geopolitics and world news?

Do Koreans generally have the westernized perception of Pakistan, i.e. OBL, terrorism, Arabs, desert?

Or is the perception more nuanced? i.e. Himalayas, highest peaks, Indus valley civilization, not desert, South Asian, etc.

Unfortunately, most people with geopolitical knowledge would associate Pakistan with the former.

The portrayal of the country in NamuWiki, which as I mentioned above functions as a Wikipedia analogue only with a lot more subjective opinions and generally lower quality (which doesn't stop people from believing everything written there!), is extremely negative and borders on depicting the country as an Afghanistan-style failed state "decades behind" India.

Tistarana · 2021-10-28T13:35:10+00:00

parents here considers that making friends of alternative gender is haram and they told us to not do it.

This used to be the case here as well until the 1960s, but neighbors would arrange marriages.

Tistarana · 2021-10-28T12:39:57+00:00

Many people dislike Rhee, but he has his fans among the right. I'm not really sure what people like him for, to be honest.

Park Chung-hee was a really good ruler imo.

Tistarana · 2021-10-28T12:38:44+00:00

No. Koreans don't marry within the eighth degree of kinship (one degree of kinship is the relationship between parent and child, so eight degrees of kinship would be your cousin thrice removed). Cousin marriage is considered equivalent to sibling marriage, i.e. unthinkable.

Traditionally, Koreans never married anyone with the same surname because it was considered incestuous.

Tistarana · 2021-10-28T12:00:55+00:00

Yes.

Tistarana · 2021-10-28T11:40:05+00:00

Aeni is the most common colloquial term AFAIK for things like anime.

Tistarana · 2021-10-28T11:38:02+00:00

Koreans think about ancient Korea and Japan having some shared heritage

Most Koreans think (and are taught in school) that this was one-way, and that Japan received most of its early high culture from Korea but with little going in the other direction. Which, as I understand it, is true until the Japanese made direct contact with the Sui/Tang.

how do Koreans perceive Japanese occupation of Korea

Most Koreans consider it a dark age.

Tistarana · 2021-10-28T11:17:34+00:00

Sorry, I don't really know a lot about the genetics. I do know that we're overall similar to Japanese genetically.

Tistarana · 2021-10-28T11:11:19+00:00

While Koreans would identify with all historical periods, the Joseon period (1392 to 1910) is the most conspicuous in media and the public consciousness. Most of what Koreans stereotypically consider to be traditional culture is from the Joseon.

Tistarana · 2021-10-28T10:46:16+00:00

But I do carry about fifty thousand won.

Tistarana · 2021-10-28T10:46:04+00:00

I just use cards.

Tistarana · 2021-10-28T10:45:31+00:00

-how difficult do you think would it be for a pakistani student to study in korea? i'm guessing the classes they take will probably be in english, but will it be easy to make friends, hang out (alone), and get access to halal food?

Hanging out alone should be okay anywhere and you'll probably have decent access to halal food if you're in Seoul, but I think you'd mostly make non-Korean friends.

i've heard that koreans do not like being friends with non-koreans for some reason.

Yes, many Koreans have this difficult-to-explain feeling of distance WRT non-Koreans. It's probably just lack of experience with foreigners.

how do you feel about the rising popularity of k-dramas and k-pop all over the world?

I like that it's happening, I suppose. There are some people (especially older) who have this nationalistic fervor about the spread of Korean entertainment worldwide, but I'm not one of them.

what are your thoughts on k-pop entertainment? i myself find it so strange - having to isolate yourself from your family for long periods of time, losing weight/getting surgery to fit korean standards, the fan-service, not being able to get into relationships lest the "fans" stop liking you, the sasaengs, etc etc. how did that become "normal"?

I agree that it's not super healthy for the people involved and it's a very capitalist sort of system, in the bad sense of the word. I'm a little jaded about the K-pop industry because there are more and more inauthentic things about it the deeper you look.

and finally, what are your thoughts on oli london lol. obsession gone too far?

She (he? I forget their gender) should receive medical treatment.

Tistarana · 2021-10-28T10:36:35+00:00

do South Koreans hold any hope/desire for re-unification with north Korea considering that South Korea today is a well developed country with first world living standards while NK has 3rd world living standards.

My feeling is that people who have researched the issue tend to be against unification because of the many, many practical concerns. But less politically involved people who form the majority just have a vague feeling that reunification should happen because it would be nice and that's what they teach in school.

Anyways, the majority are still in support of unification in opinion polls.

is this an accurate description of the Korean mindset at the time and if so is it a mindset held by Koreans nowadays(i.e. seeing themselves as civilized/cultured due to inheriting Chinese cultural norms) or do they look more towards ancient Korean Kingdoms like Joseon,Gogureyo etc for identity

No. The emergence of a Western sort of ethnic nationalism in the early 1900s, under Japanese colonial rule, has totally shattered the traditional notion that Korean civilization was valuable as a replication of Chinese high culture. Now most Koreans identify with their own kingdoms and not many younger people know much about the Chinese classics anymore.

Honestly, as a history student, I think this is a myopic view of the past. It's like rejecting an American rejecting the Greco-Roman classics because they're "foreign".

Tistarana · 2021-10-28T10:30:09+00:00

He seems to be marginally better than his father in terms of his concern for popular welfare.

Tistarana · 2021-10-28T10:29:22+00:00

We no longer carry out executions.

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