How is unni funny?
#1
Posted 02 October 2012 - 07:07 PM
#2
Posted 02 October 2012 - 08:17 PM
#3
Posted 03 October 2012 - 12:19 AM
#4
Posted 03 October 2012 - 01:40 AM
#5
Posted 03 October 2012 - 01:41 PM
its just about manners? or something hot?
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#6
Posted 03 October 2012 - 03:45 PM
Edited by oliverwashere, 03 October 2012 - 03:47 PM.
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#7
Posted 03 October 2012 - 05:02 PM
Yeah, you're probably right, I doubt anyone who wasn't raised in a culture where gender was important in language would really be able to fully appreciate the joke or find what happened as funny as someone who did.Only Korean girls refer to girls older than ,but closer to, their age as unni. Boys refer to girls that are older than, but closer to, their age as noona. It's a cultural thing that could possibly be a homosexual joke or a joke about how ignorant, inattentive, or slow Enzu is.
#8
Posted 03 October 2012 - 06:01 PM
I was raised and am still in the united states speaking only English (wish i knew more though) and the joke still made complete sense. Personally i just think that its not your culture but the sense of humor you were raised with.Yeah, you're probably right, I doubt anyone who wasn't raised in a culture where gender was important in language would really be able to fully appreciate the joke or find what happened as funny as someone who did.
#9
Posted 03 October 2012 - 06:03 PM
yup, could be. i mean it isn't that i didn't get it and find it funny but as hilarious as the characters did? nah, obviously notI was raised and am still in the united states speaking only English (wish i knew more though) and the joke still made complete sense. Personally i just think that its not your culture but the sense of humor you were raised with.
#10
Posted 04 October 2012 - 03:42 PM
#11
Posted 04 October 2012 - 08:24 PM
Edited by TheCrowSword, 04 October 2012 - 08:24 PM.
#12
Posted 04 October 2012 - 10:52 PM
mmm, yeah, i'm guessing the thing that they (the characters other than Enzu) found soooo funny was that by using the wrong term according to gender, he was in reality calling himself a girl.......a girl would call her unni and a boy should call her noona. He used unni, so i suppose it's so funny because he just feminized himself. English just doesn't have these things, gender in personal pronouns, yeah......her, she, him he......but none of that reflects back specifically on the user like the Korean stuff does.Hmm, to simplify things... How embarrassed would you be if you happened to called one of your friends for mom or dad by accident ? (at around their age especially )
I can get it all day long but there's no way I can ever find it as funny as they do.
#13
Posted 05 October 2012 - 02:42 PM
Hmm, to simplify things... How embarrassed would you be if you happened to called one of your friends for mom or dad by accident ? (at around their age especially )
it would be akward calling my Girl... MOM LOL
I have alwavs found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the Only Wise. This they do with a confident insolence sprouting from systematic reasoning.
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#14
Posted 05 October 2012 - 03:53 PM
Also such things tend to depend (for me and my friends) on how close a relationship you have with people. You can laugh to death when a close friend does something embarrising, were you might just instantly move on at work or school if the same thing happened(just stating the obvious, unless ofc you are a bully ).
#15
Posted 20 October 2012 - 04:12 AM
To be honest i believe that fan service is terrible
#16
Posted 28 October 2012 - 10:21 AM
And so I don't know what these terms mean, that doesn't mean I am dumb. Thankyou those who explained it for me.
Edited by truepurple, 28 October 2012 - 10:21 AM.
#17
Posted 28 October 2012 - 04:25 PM
She asks him to call her "noonim", complaining that he always calls Matthew "noona" but her "ajumma".....meaning she's an "old" lady......I guess noonim is more formal than noona. In the manhwa all the boys call the older girls noona, but the obvious middle aged women ajumma.I thought I remember her asking him to call her unni though, that he used that term on her request.
And so I don't know what these terms mean, that doesn't mean I am dumb. Thankyou those who explained it for me.
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Edited by svines85, 28 October 2012 - 04:26 PM.
#18
Posted 29 October 2012 - 07:24 PM
Ya everyone has pretty much hit the nail on the head. I had a similar experience speaking Japanese I used watashi wa to refer to myself instead of boku wa and everyone laughed. Girls use watashi wa men use boku wa lol unless they want to talk like Elmo and say their own name in the third person… Anyway they picked on me for a while before telling me I didn’t call myself a girl but that I was speaking very politely like a well-mannered person or (girl) not the manual laborer that I am.
Edited by sorrow, 07 May 2013 - 11:43 PM.
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#19
Posted 30 October 2012 - 04:00 PM
lol the barriers of languageYa everyone has pretty much hit the nail on the head. I had a similar experience speaking Japanese I used watashi wa to refer to myself instead of boku wa and everyone laughed. Girls use watashi wa men use boku wa lol unless they want to talk like Elmo and say their own name in the third person… Anyway they picked on me for a while before telling me I didn’t call myself a girl but that I was speaking very politely like a well-mannered person or (girl) not the manual laborer that I am.
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#20
Posted 29 January 2013 - 10:00 AM
when i got to "manual laborer" it all made sense. oh lol, that would be so funny to witness. there are many contexts where it would be perfectly natural for a guy to use watashi, but yours was not one of thoseYa everyone has pretty much hit the nail on the head. I had a similar experience speaking Japanese I used watashi wa to refer to myself instead of boku wa and everyone laughed. Girls use watashi wa men use boku wa lol unless they want to talk like Elmo and say their own name in the third person… Anyway they picked on me for a while before telling me I didn’t call myself a girl but that I was speaking very politely like a well-mannered person or (girl) not the manual laborer that I am.
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