Daily Archives: March 13, 2010

13 Mar

Get the show on the road

Who taught: Pete

Yesterday, I was waiting for Andrew to leave the office together because I need to get my stuff from his car. I left my bag into his car the other day. Well, anyways, but he was in the meeting and I had to wait for him. Pete was passing by me and tell me another expression. “Let’s get the show on the road!” My guess was it sounds like it means something like make something or someone public and known to many other people. Well, it actually means like “let’s get started!” or like “let’s go!”

I was so tempted to use it to Andrew but I did not want to interrupt his meeting.

Patrick uses the other expression, “All right, let’s do the shit!” Is it the same thing?

After writing bunch of these articles with many expressions, I am getting more curious. What would American people think if I use these kind of expressions too much. Would it be weird? Frankly, it would sound weird to me if non-native Korean speaker, staying in Korea, speak all different kind of Korean slangs. Well, it might be OK if he/she speaks really good Korean. I donno. Just short thought about my using slangs. What do you think?

13 Mar

how are you? and good bye!

This time I would like to discuss about what I have felt about some expressions related with greetings.

When I was in the elementary school or even middle school, I learned an English expression for greetings. It was really simple.

A: “How are you?”

B: “Fine! Thank you! And you?”

A: “I am fine too!”

This was it. I cannot remember any other expressions I learned for greetings. Oh, the other thing I remember is “Good bye!” Now I have been here for a while, there are a few different expressions many people use. Let’s see!

When people meet: “What’s up?”, “How’s it going?”, “What’s new?”, “Anything special?”, “Yo!”, “How are you?”

When people part: “Take it easy!”, “Bye!”, “Take care!”, “See you!”, “Seeya!”

There must be more I guess. But the thing is it was kind of difficult to try using different expressions since I only learned one expression and it stayed in my brain for a long time. But I have a question here. So, suppose that I meet a client for the first time, is it ok for me to use “What’s up?” or “What’s new?” I guess not, right? If not, why? I know I cannot use “Hey! Yo!” in that situation 🙂 I think in that case I should use “How are you?” This kind of subtle differences are always hard to catch and grasp.