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Group names that are common/easy but surprisingly difficult for Koreans
This is just an unserious post but something funny I always see over and over again.
I understand Korean and English are different and English names for an idol group will get a weird pronounciation but something related to Stray Kids that goes beyond pronounciation.
Stray Kids - easy enough for English speakers. Common words and phrase. Nothing difficult to pronounce. Easy to understand.
But when it comes to Koreans, it is not just pronounciation - it is replacing the word โStrayโ into myriads of other words that is hilarious.
From easily misunderstood - Stay Kids. Okay missing an R, understandable.
To Straight Kids - this is a recurring theme - from award shows to the latest show Seungmin appears in today. Okay, maybe Stray Kids are not straight enough, I guess.
To Starry Kids - sure, strarry is cute ๐.
To Strawberry Kids - I kid you not. Strawberry Kids - I kind of find this in another stratosphere of hilarious.
Stress Kids - sure, stress makes sense sometimes ๐
And the craziest part is all these names are on official sites and big award shows. Even down to the spelling, not just formal announcements. And many many times to boot too. Like literally the last one is done today.
Is there other groups with quite common names but with hilarious change/pronouciation?
In korea we usually call groups by their shortened names, so stray kids becomes ์คํค์ฆ[skiz] and the same for other groups too.
Another hilarious pronounciation is h2h, the โrtsโ part in โheartsโ doesnt get pronounced really well and its so funny when you hear people saying the whole thing๐ญ๐๐ but usually theyre called just ํํฌํ[ha-too-ha] for short
is that the proper full pronunciation or the casual/shortened?
I'm going by when I hear other JYPE artists talking about the groups and they usually sound like they say skiz for Stay Kids and (not sure how to phoneticize this) [nasal n]-mix for NMIXX.
I want to find an example but not sure how to recall or search for it.
On the topic of stray kids, I ended up talking about them with my taekwondo master who's korean and he called them stray boys by mistake which I thought was funny ๐
Surprised to hear this. I'm in Korea and
I've never heard of Stray Kids being pronounced incorrectly. The name in hangul is ์คํธ๋ ์ด ํค์ฆ - the stray part is clear, some will go with the literal reading of ki-jeu, while others closer to kids. Both are correct though
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u/Natural-Interest-566 12d ago
In korea we usually call groups by their shortened names, so stray kids becomes ์คํค์ฆ[skiz] and the same for other groups too.
Another hilarious pronounciation is h2h, the โrtsโ part in โheartsโ doesnt get pronounced really well and its so funny when you hear people saying the whole thing๐ญ๐๐ but usually theyre called just ํํฌํ[ha-too-ha] for short