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Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Did you know...

... that in Korea, because of the smaller amount of snow, whenever a kid draws a snowman, there's only 2 balls of snow instead of three?

... that in Korea, presumably because the language is traditionally read vertically in columns reading from right to left (like Chinese), the "play" button on VCRs and tape players (and probably DVD players) is a triangle that points left instead of right, like in North America/Europe/Australia? (Psst... any family members remember my random question about the possibility of Hebrew VCRs doing this exact same thing? Not so crazy now, am I?)

... that in Korea, there are no street names or signs (well, there are, but they've only been around for the past couple years, and no-one uses them), and when you take a taxi, you have to give directions using landmarks instead of addresses? (but when ordering pizza, you give your mailing address, and they find you using that)

... that the British never actually had a chance to make Alaska part of Canada, but that the Russians sold it in 1867 because the British were enemies and the Russians would rather have sold it for 2 cents/acre (which they did) rather than have it captured by the British?

... that "are" is the only monosyllabic word in the English language (to he extent of my knowledge) to which you can add only one letter and have it become trisyllabic?

... that, if you have the appropriate attitude, "dance like nobody's watching" can be the exact same as "dance like everybody's watching"?

6 Comments:

At 10:27 a.m., Anonymous Anonymous said...

hmm... simple answer to your question "did you know..." would be no. Very interesting!! Awesome procrastination as well... another two minutes I didn't have to write my essay.

Take care
Love Veronica

 
At 3:13 p.m., Blogger Emily said...

what's the letter you can add to "are"? I need to know because now it's driving me crazy(er).

Cheers,
Em <><

 
At 6:01 p.m., Anonymous Anonymous said...

wow...interesting!!

 
At 3:19 a.m., Anonymous Anonymous said...

I think exhaustion and a possible fever has done you in!! Nevertheless fascinating! I actually did know some of that, the the exception of anything Korean..or about technology..but I did know about the monosyllable and all that stuff...yeah I got nothing I knew none of that...good blog!

Stevo

 
At 5:45 a.m., Blogger Unknown said...

The letter you add to "are" is "a" and you add it at the end.

 
At 1:56 a.m., Anonymous Anonymous said...

(Psst... any family members remember my random question about the possibility of Hebrew VCRs doing this exact same thing? Not so crazy now, am I?)

still crazy.

 

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