Comments on: Typos

By: Nicoll (EYKDictionary)

Nicoll (EYKDictionary) — Fri, 16 May 2014 03:45:00 +0000

Hahaha oh if only I could say I owned typos. Korean homophones will get you almost every time, especially if you doubt your own ability to spell xP

By: Uncountable

Uncountable — Mon, 12 May 2014 06:53:27 +0000

[…] Mr Gwon is having some trouble with the word ‘tadpoles’ again. (Which he thought were called “typos”). […]

By: ladysaotome

ladysaotome — Sat, 10 May 2014 21:57:00 +0000

In reply to 코알라. Exactly what I mean!

By: 코알라

코알라 — Sat, 10 May 2014 21:14:00 +0000

In reply to koreada. Can't forget the infamous 십팔 vs 씨발. :P

By: 코알라

코알라 — Sat, 10 May 2014 21:12:00 +0000

In reply to ladysaotome. I am a native English speaker and I can't remember which word it was but there was a certain word which I've obviously known my whole life and knew the meaning of it. But for some reason I didn't know how to spell it, but I've also read the word a lot and knew the meaning of it. I knew the meaning of the spoken and written words and that they had the same meaning but for some reason I thought they were different words. It wasn't until I was reading something online that had that word that it finally clicked that they were the same word. I even googled it to get the pronunciation to make sure. I was shocked because it happened when I was 20 or 21 years old.

By: Yewan Holmes

Yewan Holmes — Thu, 08 May 2014 13:04:00 +0000

I remember living in Finland and ordering a burger with no kirkko (churches) rather than no kurkku (pickles)

By: Jason Tankard

Jason Tankard — Thu, 08 May 2014 04:58:00 +0000

That is awesome.

By: ladysaotome

ladysaotome — Thu, 08 May 2014 01:53:00 +0000

For years I thought “chaos” was pronounced kow-us because I didn’t know the spelling. I thought it was another word that just happened to mean the same thing!

By: JC

JC — Thu, 08 May 2014 01:25:00 +0000

To add my mix-up story, I was playing an RPG with some friends and the GM kept mentioning the uber-scary “Bowl of the North.” There had been some silly names in the game, so I really didn’t think anything of it. After several weekends, I finally asked why everyone was so afraid of him, since his name wasn’t that scary. Come to find out his name was “Bull” not “Bowl.” I got made fun of for quite sometime for that one.

By: koreada

koreada — Thu, 08 May 2014 01:12:00 +0000

“harmony” is the pronunciation for grandmother in Korean. “go-chu” versus “kko-chu”: one means pepper and one is genitalia.