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[truepurple]

So she gets him to call the other girl unni, then they all laugh at that. Would someone please explain?

[Hoet]

shoulda read the top of the chapter

[Akumetsu]

No, the bottom ;p

[Hoet]

However the explanation of why is most definitely printed on the top

[Rant]

yeah it says on the top of the char, but why it IS embarrasing? some one knows?
its just about manners? or something hot?

[oliverwashere]

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.

Edited by oliverwashere, 03 October 2012 - 03:47 PM.

[svines85]

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.

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.

[Kappa]

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.

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.

[svines85]

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.

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 not

[Dresos]

I got it, but then again... the nerd is strong in this one.

[TheCrowSword]

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 )

Edited by TheCrowSword, 04 October 2012 - 08:24 PM.

[svines85]

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 )

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.

I can get it all day long but there's no way I can ever find it as funny as they do.

[Rant]

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

[TheCrowSword]

Well not really my point but I think you get that, more or less xD. anyways I was just reminded about when I was a kid, and my best friend did that. I laughed a lot (almost died laughing there). so I was comparing it to something that could happen in our culture equally embarrassing. Yes you know this but really I just have to say it once more.

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 ).

[Meow Zorg]

it's kind of calling your teacher "MOM" after waking up in class.

[truepurple]

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.

Edited by truepurple, 28 October 2012 - 10:21 AM.

[svines85]

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.

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.
vol 2 03 ch 11

Edited by svines85, 28 October 2012 - 04:26 PM.

[sorrow]

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.

[Rant]

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.

lol the barriers of language

[Yaomo]

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.

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 those