Comments on: ‘Stuff Asian People Like’

By: slim

slim — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:45:27 +0000

Yo slim,

http://stuffunimaginativeblogg…..gspot.com/

That site would be funny if used appropriately, but coming from someone who already had 3-4 comments on the thread before I even showed up….

http://stuffthatjackasseswithn.....eorsay.com

By: Maddlew

Maddlew — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 04:26:50 +0000

My point, and I can’t believe we’re even having to go into this, is the coining of these terms is for the most part directly involved in marketing. They are feeble attempts at sounding sophisticated, or so I suppose. I can’t imagine anyone using “ubiquitous” and actually trying to communicate. How often would you use ubiquitous instead of a more readily understood, everywhere?
If a marketing team in the States put forward an ad campaign in which they didn’t fully understand every component of that campaign, they’d soon be flushed from the system.

By: Maddlew

Maddlew — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 04:12:46 +0000

As far as the Latin you are kind of making my argument for me.

By: Maddlew

Maddlew — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:51:05 +0000

English adopts word from languages throughout the world and also creates new words to suit new ideas and styles. However, our recent importation of Greek has not been that vast. I think it would be safe to say that the predominant borrowing of Greek words is not a contemporary phenomena. Their bastardization not a fashion or marketing driven development either.

By: SomeguyinKorea

SomeguyinKorea — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:46:33 +0000

“But the adaptation of these words in their present Korean usage is a leap of the moment whereas the slow, incremental change of meaning of Latin to English word adoption took millennia.”

Maybe for words that are Greek in origin since there are still native speakers of Greek around, but not for words that come from Latin, which hasn’t had any native speakers for roughly 1500 years.

“He even stated he wanted to get a real role, but never got one.”

Nah, I his autobiography here (a friend gave it to me). I was surprised that it was an interesting read. He says in the book that although he would like to do that sort of stuff (he trained to be a dramatic actor as a kid), he recognizes that his niche is being a slapstick actor like Buster Keaton (his idol, BTW).

Besides, what do you make of Rob Schneider? He’s Filipino.

By: WangKon936

WangKon936 — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:47:08 +0000

Yo slim,

http://stuffunimaginativeblogg.....gspot.com/

By: slim

slim — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:33:33 +0000

Th Stuff White People Like list needed to be trimmed down to remove the weak entries (e.g iPods). The Asian one is lame across the board.

By: ZZOOzzoo

ZZOOzzoo — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:07:01 +0000

“Stuff Asian People Like: Asian Supermarkets.”

…. um… am I supposed to lol at this?

By: Mr Kim

Mr Kim — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:01:09 +0000

Every movie Jacki was in, he said Hai-Ya.

To be fair, Jackie Chan’s (only) forté is martial arts slapstick. Think Buster Keaton, just not.

By: WangKon936

WangKon936 — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 05:15:51 +0000

Yeah, I left a comment on that site saying…

“… this blog should be renamed ‘Stuff Expatriated Chinese Like…’”