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1 Sep 2017
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Why Korean thinks that 你吃飯了嗎(ni chi fan le ma)（밥 먹었니)sounds like Korean's bad word? What is the bad word?
Why Korean thinks that 你吃飯了嗎(ni chi fan le ma)（밥 먹었니)sounds like Korean's bad word? What is the bad word?
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- Korean
It sounds like swearing and similar.
^^;;;
- Korean
I'll put The Bad Word without a censorship. Please forgive me
Ni Chi fan le ma [ni ʈ͡ʂɨ fan lə ma]
to us, sounds like :
니 씨 팔 럼 아 (ni ssi pal leo ma) [ni: s˭i p'al ɾʌ ma]
which is originally
니 씨 발 놈 아 (ni ssi bal no ma) [ni: s˭i bal no ma]
I can't translate in sentence so I'll just analize this step by step
# "Ni" is you
# "Ssi bal" is roughly equivalent of the F word. Since 吃(chi) is affricate, it sounds much worse (Ssi bal > Si bal)
Casual example : https://hinative.com/en-US/questions/4621518
# "Nom" is... I'm not sure there's a proper translation but when it's used with a curse word, it'd be "~ass", "punk", or "jerk". when it's not, a "guy"
# "A" is a vocative ending, no meaning
..."ni chi fan le ma" joke is famous and xx럼아 is a ridiculos variation but please don't look down 씨 word and forget about it
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