• 1.2 Fall 2019

    Week 13, Wednesday, a grave offense

    Today was a whole lot of good but I have to get something off my chest. This pertains to language and relationships so let’s have a fun language corner: Korean has a lot of politeness levels that can also be combined with various honorific conjugations. But for our lesson today, let’s focus and say that there are essentially three levels of politeness. Casual language that is used between close friends, lovers, people born in the same year, or from a much older to younger person; polite language which is used between coworkers, people who don’t know each other that well, and general every day situations; and formal which is used…