Not as easy as you might think.

1. Where is your cell phone?
Sofa.

2. Describe your boyfriend/girlfriend?
Unique.

3. Your hair?
Absent.

4. Your mother?
Fragile.

5. Your father?
Dead.

6. Your favourite item?
Computer.

7. Your dream last night?
Dunno.

8. Your favourite drink?
Wine.

9. Your dream car?
Nope.

10. The room you are in?
Cold.

11. Your ex?
Forgotten.

12. Your fear?
Pain.

13. What do you want to be in 10 years?
Alive.

14. Who did you hang out with last night?
Family.

15. What you’re not?
Drinking.

19. The last thing you did?
Work.

20. What are you wearing?
Underwear.

22. Your favourite book?
Thrillers.

23. The last thing you ate?
Muffin.

24. Your life?
Haphazard.

25. Your mood?
Depressed.

26. Your friends?
Few.

27. What are you thinking about right now?
Nothing.

28. Your car?
None.

29. What are you doing at the moment?
Typing.

30. Your summer?
Long.

31. Your relationship status?
Married.

32. What is on your tv?
Crap.

33. When is the last time you laughed?
Recently.

34. Last time you cried?
Forgot.

35. School?
Boring.

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Sure thing. But start with yer own spellin’…

I am sitting inside the lounge, but I am ready to bet that the WiFi router, right behind me, will send a strong enough signal to reach the seats, a mere 15 meters from the lounge’s glass windows…

I don’t particularly relish the idea of going to Seoul in the current anti-mooh frenzy. My clients and contacts are reasonable enough, but that still leaves way too many freaks on the streets with a grudge and a severe itch to scratch. Last time it happened, during the economic metdown, in 1997/8, I got harrassed and in a couple of occurences, physically attacked, just for being white - and thus American, right, cuz all whiteys are from the US, all blacks from Africa, and all Asians, oh, wait…

Anyway, I hope this craziness dies soon. Business as usual in South Korea is hard enough, we don’t need riots on the street. Just give up the FTA and lock down the borders for KR products. See how they like it…

Look at that big sun here — and the prediction for storms or whatever on Friday. We have neither, for the moment: some sunshine, and some clouds. I guess what this forecast is telling me is probably what is was recently — sorry can’t see anything in the morning before coffee — and what we gonna have soon. Ouchies. Storms, and hot weather. Ah well, beats cold rain

ㅏㅑㅓㅕㅗㅛㅜㅠㅡㅣ

The first four vowels in this illustration, with the vertical lines, were incompatible with the second four vowels, the ones with the horizontal lines. The last two vowels were neutral, as was another one, not shown here, which was written as a single dot and which has since fallen out of use. [some dude]

Nononono. There are two things wrong here. The first one is that the [in]compatibility stated above, in regard of syllable composition, is plain wrong. ㅗ and ㅏ could and still can combine — that’s how we write /wa/. ㅜ and ㅓ, ditto for /we/. Moreover, ㅛ and ㅑ, and ㅠ and ㅕ combined in Middle Korean, at least in the “漢字正音” [correct pronunciation of sinograms] usage to produce diphtongs that are not possible anymore today — and that could probably be reconstructed as */ywa/ and */ywe/.
The second one is that vowel harmony in Middle Korean, like in Mongolian or Turkish — and the main link, on that matter and others, with Korean is Mongolian, not Turkish — is based on two exclusive sets of vowels, {ㅏ, ㅗ, ㆍ} [a, o, ʌ] vs {ㅓ, ㅜ, ㅡ} [e, u, ɯ]. Neither Neither ㆍ nor ㅡ were neutral. ㅣ /i/ was indeed neutral and combined in different ways with both sets of vowels: ㅏ+ㅣ -> ㅐ, ㅜ+ㅣ -> ㅟ, ㅣ+ㅗ -> ㅛ, etc… I don’t have my Middle Korean dictionaries with me in HK, but I can remember at least one example: /kasʌy/ thorn vs /kusɯl/. The harmony rule extended to the grammatical particles that are suffixed to nouns, adjectives and verbs: /mʌl + ʌn/ [the] horse [as subject] vs /mɯl + ɯn/ [the] water [as subject].

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