http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/teach-abroad/asia/japan/janglish-dictionary/

‘confess’ tell someone you are attracted to them

‘propose’ ask your date if they would like to ‘go steady’ with you

‘hof’ a bar or pub

sorry for the flood of questions :)
regards from Poland,
Michalina

Thanks,

RR

My students just told me that to explain email addresses they use “middle bar” for “dash” and “underbar” for “underscore”

That is indeed an interesting question. I’ve started writing articles and blog posts on that question with relation to Japanese English (which I know a lot more about than Konglish), but it is too huge a topic for a blog post and of too limited interest for an article, so have never finished one. If you’d like to do a guest piece on the topic, e.g. “Give that Konglish some respect!”, I’d be happy to put it on TEFLtastic.

On the topic of Japanese English, these Macmillan pages look great:

http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/japanese-english/

Most people reading the blog would probably be interested in changing konglish expressions in order to teach Koreans the “correct” English expression.

If a person is interested in what he should fix or correct with Koreans then “tire” is probably not a word he/she should be that concerned about. Whereas “arbeit” is.

The problem is, there is no one standard that everyone agrees on as being “standard English”. Therefore, which words you should correct and which ones you should let slide is a controversial issue.

If konglish is seen as bad, then that’s the pot calling the kettle black since English is rife with words that are borrowed from other languages. As far as English borrowing a word from another language and using it in a way that is not used in the language English borrowed it from, well, English has a lot of examples of that as well.

For example, as I said before, correcting something like SF for “science fiction” is overzealous because a good argument can be made for SF being standard English. Why not tell Korean students that some people, including people who are famous in the field of science fiction, use SF instead of “sci. fi.”? Isn’t that more informative than saying SF is wrong because you and your buddies that you meet in the bar don’t use it?

So my question is, as English teachers, who should endeavor to give students as accurate of information as possible (to the point of even correcting our own mistakes when we discover them), what should we do regarding “konglish”?

Tire is within the words I am interested in, as there is a meaning in English that does not exist in Korean, being the verb of tired. This is more useful in the classroom when it is actually the same word as the one they know rather than just sharing spelling (in American English) and pron (a homonym??), but is certainly something worth including. Again, I’ve never said otherwise, so really have no idea what your issue is.

Given that description “tire” is konglish because it is used as an “English” word in Korean. Just like ketchup is a loan word from Chinese.

I’m glad to see that we can clearly define things like konglish so that we can test whether or not an expression fits the definition.