Amanda Takes Off...

(An unpublished post I found from March 3, 2007.)

You know the old saying (found to be false, I believe) about Eskimos have hundreds of words for snow?

In Korean, it's rice.

"Amanda, 쌀, you know 쌀?"

I say, "밥? 밥?" Rice? Rice?

Master looks confused. Then realizes what I'm saying. 쌀 is uncooked rice. 밥 is cooked rice.

It's almost like he said, "Amanda, do you know tomatoes?"

"Yes, ketchup."

(Actually, there aren't that many words for rice, it's just that rice is described using much more detail than we would in English. And for the record, Good Man says the honorific word for "rice" is 진지.)