Boaty McBoatface: What You Get When You Let the Internet Decide

Re:Boaty McBoatface: What You Get When You Let the Internet ... by yongjik on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @01:12PM (#11338053)

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.

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Re:Boaty McBoatface: What You Get When You Let the Internet ... by jacobush on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @04:28PM (#11339735)

And to this day (?) Korean farmers had pigs eat human feces. And the word for pig-sty and out-house are apparently of similar origin?

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Re:Boaty McBoatface: What You Get When You Let the Internet ... by yongjik on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @04:47PM (#11339842)

Eh, 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. :/

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