frustrated at being followed around the shop as if suspected of shop-lifting, even seasoned expats will utter from their book of spells a horrible incantation of konglishee and silliness:
just... eye-shopping
but the more i used this black spell to make the clerk stop following me, the less i felt like i could live with myself.
so this one is for the expats- a reminder to catch yourself from using broken english. use this phrase instead:
구경만 할게요*
and the store clerks will leave you alone forever! it pretty much means the same as you'd say in english:
"just looking"
jo-na-dan-shi 2011
* if you don't know the writing system yet, it seriously can
be learned in an afternoon. do it even if you only have a
month left to go here. you won't be sorry. it will also
allow you to read the phrase i provided above.
credit: luke martin's absolutely fantastic comics
on his retired blog http://roketship.tumblr.com
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