I tried Googling a transliteration, but with no success. It wasn’t listed in either of my beginner guides to Korean, and I had never heard the word in conversation, so I wondered if it really meant what I was told. The most recent word I’d heard was 사정, which I’d been told mean ‘spooge’ or ‘semen’. It didn’t take long before I strayed from translating the functions on my computer to entering words I’d heard and always wondered about… If I can’t see the spelling or fully hear about the definition, then I remain skeptical.īut then along came Google Translate and my new laptop with a Korean keyboard! Suddenly, any time I need to know a word in Korean, or find out an English meaning for something I’d otherwise simply guess, I just have to ask Google. Consequently, the random bad words I hear tend to go in one ear and out the other. I’m terribly paranoid that people are either lying, or I’m too stupid and I’ve misunderstood, and so I like to be able to check.

The problem is that I’ve always needed something to be written AND spoken for me to really understand. Not many of them talk about genitals or excrement. The people who help me learn are generally co-workers, and random people I meet when out and about. Consequently, my grasp of grammar is decent enough, whereas my vocabulary sucks. I’ve never owned a Korean dictionary, either, because I use two textbooks when I learn ( Korean Made Easy and First Step in Korean). So when I do learn a word, it’s never written down or put entirely in context, and I’m left to wonder whether the pronunciation is lost, like in Chinese Whispers… Mostly, I learn bad words through my friend, Brian, who in turn learns them from the Korean players on his football team. It’s strange, but as an immature male who is learning another language, I’ve never really thought a lot about swearing in Korean… I know a few words, but not many, and I’m not even sure if the ones I know are real, or if people are just screwing with me and telling me fake words.

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