It's Been A While

My self-imposed exile from The Internets is drawing to a close and first up is this week's The SeoulPodcast! The podcast took something of a fall vacation with Joe marrying his sweetheart and JenniferTeacher and I embroiled in KOTESOL conference shinanagins.

So it's smething of a catch up as to where your respective hosts have been, what they've been up to and what we're into in the coming weeks as we lead up o Christmas. (Eeek!)

As always you can get the podcast directly from the site, or download it directly here. [mp3 93:57]

Go. Now. Listen.

Happy 호박 날?*

Halloween - one of those North American things I have never really gotten into - much to the chagrin of a number of my candy-crazed students.

Nevertheless, Happy Halloween!

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*Pumpkin Day?

This Made Me Laugh

On a day wracked with pain (Thank you teeth) this managed to get a chorttle:

Linkage

A couple of readers have suggested making the links in posts and on The Bimbo in general more accessible.

Obviously an HD monitor (on which things look perfectly clear to me) isn't necessarily within everyone's grasp.

Thus you wil notice the slightest of changes with links now appearing in a light blue.

Hope that helps.

(Another) Honourable Mention

This time YONAHP - Korea's wire service - gives me some play over comments made in this post regarding Visit Korea Year 2010-2012 (Go see the post as to a discussion of the logic regarding how one year is 2010-2012).

  뉴질랜드 출신 국내 블로거인 스테포드 럼스든씨도 블로그(stafford.squarespace.com)에서 "담당 기관인 '한국방문의 해 위원회'에 편지를 보내 오류를 지적했다"며 "위원회 웹사이트(www.visitkorea.com)에 실린 '그린 앤 휴먼(Green and Human)' 등의 말도 어색하긴 마찬가지"라고 했다.

YONHAP picks up on my feelings that phrases like "Green and Human" are just plain awkward and cites a 51 year old English professor who backs me up:

   한국에서 11년을 산 동국대 외국어교육센터 루스 리들(51.여.영국) 강사는 "여대를 'Woman's University'로 적는 것과 비슷한 형태의 실수로 보인다"며 "한국적 표현으로 볼 수도 있지만, 원어민 개인 입장에선 아무래도 어색하게 들리는 게 사실"이라고 꼬집었다.

The story also cites Friend of the Bimbo Brian in Jeollanam-do (Whom The Bimbo metin person for the first time this weekend) whose posts on the subject are also worth a read.

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BTW for future reference my surname is spelt 람스덴 in when written in Korean. But I do like being refered to as a "New Zealand Blogger" hee hee!