korean & swedish speakers?

[kaigou]

In Korean (hangul, not romancized): how would you say, "feed me"? The imperative form that a five-year-old might use to demand from parents would be perfect, if the verb form is required.

In Swedish: how would you say, "says the machine" where "says" is something like the English "cried" (not as in tears, but in exhortation or command). Alternate verbs: "demanded" or "insisted"... you probably get the idea.

The story: our dryer died, and my father & stepmother are gifting us with a new one. I had originally looked at Frigidaires, Kenmores, and GEs, but got sidetracked into looking at LGs and was rather impressed with the quality for the money. When I called my father back to let him know the various models, and mentioned that I'd started considering LGs as well, Dad's reply?

"Ah, LGs are good machines. I've spoken with the company's president."

I really, really need to stop being astonished by how much my father gets around. Heads of state, heads of chaebols. Righto! Just another day on the range, to be invited to a conference call with the freaking president of LG to discuss washing machines. Honestly. Right up there with being invited to have an informal sit-down dinner with the King of Sweden.

Hence the combination of languages in the phrase. Will post pictures when done. TIA!

Comments

[apis_mellifera]

Oh, I get a similar feeling when I remember that my cousin's husband--who took the pictures at my wedding and who is an all-round nice guy--is the son of a head of state. He even has his own page on Wikipedia!

[kaigou]

Heh, no kidding. My FIL probably knew more than his share of heads of state, but that was due to his entire career being in the Foreign Service. My dad, however... just kinda lucks into these things. (It probably doesn't hurt that he's also brilliant, and had his own top career in industrial management/engineering, so I suspect the savvy person at LG thought, here is a retired person whose insight is still pretty amazing, and we can get his advice for free! ... and thus put my dad on the conference call with the president of LG and the director of quality control. Just should not surprise me in the least anymore... but it still does.)

Though I think my dad was very much intentional the time he called me and said, "So last friday evening I was in NYC with G, having dinner with the King."

*thunk*

[sevenall]

I'd say "ropar/utbrister maskinen". But maybe more context?

[kaigou]

I want to put it on the machine! ... so it seems right that the machine's narration should be in Swedish, even if the machine itself speaks Korean. Being a Korean machine. (My stepmother teaches languages -- Swedish, French, German, and English -- so I thought as a thank-you I'd come up with something she'd find amusing.)

Do you know the phrase from the musical, Little Shop of Horrors -- "Feed me, Seymour!" -- that's the kind of phrase I mean, but in this case it's not "said the big green plant" but "said the (big square) machine" ... that kind of thing.

[sevenall]

Okay then, "cries the machine" would be "ropar maskinen".

"Ropar" implies some volume, "befaller" more of the imperative but not necessarily volume and "utbrister" implies surprise.

[kaigou]

ropar maskinen -- or ropar apparat? which sounds/looks better to you? and we've been calling it "an awfully snazzy machine" but I haven't the faintest clue what would be an equivalent informal/slang. All I could find is that "dekorerad" means "fancy".

But it's okay! Because I haven't dragged out my paints & paintbrushes yet. On the other hand, if I end up with slightly butchered Swedish, I think G will probably forgive me. Erm, I hope. Still, I don't want to risk being graded on it. (And I guess in that analogy, asking anyone for help constitutes CHEATING but HELLO it's my journal and I can suspend the honor code if I want to!)

[sevenall]

"ropar maskinen" would be more common than "ropar apparaten", though I like the word "apparat" it isn't used very often nowadays.

as for "fancy" I might go for "piffig".

could also riff off a kids' song and call the whole setup for "en makalos manick". (add two dots to the o)

[kaigou]

So, something like:

en makalos manick: "여기요," ropar piffig maskinen.

...I'm not sure what 'en makalos manick' means so I'm not sure where it'd get added in there, or if it replaces "ropar piffig maskinen"?

[sevenall]

it should either be:

"'yaddayaddayadda,' ropar den piffiga maskinen"

or

"'yaddayaddayadda,' ropar den makalosa manicken"

"makalos manick" means "peerless gadget" but in a humorous way.

[kaigou]

Alrighty! And just to make sure, the 'makalosa' is properly 'makalösa'?

ehehehe, this cracks me up. now, to find my paintbrushes!

[sevenall]

Exactly!

[taithe]

As a kid I most often demanded:

밥 조!

There's another, slightly longer, variant I used, but my hangul is atrocious and I wouldn't want to give you the wrong translation. Ah, to be a mostly illiterate speaker.

[kaigou]

(I think DW has halted sending me notification. Uhhhhh.)

I found this, in the meantime: 여기요 which apparently means something like, "here you go!" That seems cheerful enough for around the mouth of the machine. Erm, if that's really what that means. Cripes.

Fortunately, I haven't started painting yet...

[taithe]

Yup, it can work as "here you go". It sounds polite enough for a machine.

You know, I wasn't even aware there was a King of Sweden. o.o Your father seems to have interesting connections.

[kaigou]

Yeah... it's called email.

(Apparently the King and Queen have email accounts that you can, well, email. I think the gist was that my father forwarded to the King's office an article my step-mother wrote about the history of the oldest Swedish-Lutheran church in the US, and the King replied. So next time he came to the US, his secretary emailed my father and step-mother about joining the King and a few others for dinner. Still... by email!)