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Allow me to hijack this thread to tell you about my favorite[1] word. A Korean word "inbun", when followed by a number, means "amount of serving". So "3 inbun
by yongjik 11y ago
Allow me to hijack this thread to tell you about my favorite[1] word.
A Korean word "inbun", when followed by a number, means "amount of serving". So "3 inbun" means "serves three", or "a dish for three".
When NOT followed by a number, it is a different word (with exactly the same spelling and sound). It means "human feces".
[1] LOL, not really.
- jacobush 11y agoAnd to this day (?) Korean farmers had pigs eat human feces. And the word for pig-sty and out-house are apparently of similar origin?
- yongjik 11y agoEh, that practice is gone for at least thirty years, probably more. Health concerns aside, you cannot run a for-profit pig farm with your family's "output"... I have no idea what your second sentence is talking about. :/