Dear Language Nerd, I’m going to visit my friend in Korea for two weeks. I’ve never been to Korea before and I don’t speak any Korean. Can you give me the basic Korean I’ll need to get around? From Maria D. *** Hello Maria, here are some useful Korean phrases for you! An-nyang ha-say-yo.? Hello! […]
Hello, Language Nerd, A lot of new media speech, like netspeak or leetspeak is derided as a corruption of standard English. Is there really anything negative socially about the rise of those kinds of speech? -Daniel S. *** Hello Daniel! It’s interesting that you chose netspeak and leetspeak as your examples, because they are actually […]