Thank you. I was wondering if it was just me too. (FF4 (32bit) Win x64.) Also, the right-click menu doesn't work ("check speeling") inside the comments box.
Seriously, what the fuck has Slashdot done now?
(Compounding this, it DOES work in the nightly Chromium I just downloaded (12.0.730.0 (Developer Build 80758) ).
Come the fuck on.
The Korean ones do this as well. Plus more. I wonder if the original article author also looked at the crushed up design of Naver (The default start pages of most Korean computers), along with IPark (won't even load in Firefox) and, the king of them all, G-Fucking-Market in all it's seizure-inducing, animated GIF glory?
As long as the website adheres to the main elements of Korean web deign:
1. It used 5 meg of Flash to to render a simple (and hard to use) menu system,
2. It dosen't work in anything beside IE6 (Windows XP and an Intel CPU/nVidia video card are implied),
3. It uses tiled IMAGES of text instead of.... "text", as the web designers are to lazy/dumb to work out how to position their text in HTML properly (i.e. this ), or even better USE FLASH just to render the text (see the footer of Korean Air's website),
...then it can be considered a "typical" Korean website.
I have a background in Asian linguistics, and I don't think there's a real direct linguistic reason for these elements in Japanese, Korean and Chinese websites, I think it's (VERY simplified) more likely to be a historical/cultural thing than anything else.
This. Thank you.
I love how most Westerners (i.e. usually Caucasians), think that their hopeless second language skill is special and treat it like it's some kind of linguistic pissing contest. Notice that those "foreigners" cooking your food at your local ethnic restaurant or dry-cleaning your clothes don't seem to think that learning English makes them particularly special.
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Thank you. I was wondering if it was just me too. (FF4 (32bit) Win x64.) Also, the right-click menu doesn't work ("check speeling") inside the comments box. Seriously, what the fuck has Slashdot done now? (Compounding this, it DOES work in the nightly Chromium I just downloaded (12.0.730.0 (Developer Build 80758) ). Come the fuck on.
Is she or her family Korean? She sounds exactly most most Korean women I know (I live here in South Korea—yeah, there's a whole nation of 'em).
Would you like to sell a vowel?
"Applicant must be able to work independently as member of a successful, close-knit team."
That's from an actual job application notice for a public-service job I read recently.
Noam Chomsky, is that you?
As long as the website adheres to the main elements of Korean web deign:
1. It used 5 meg of Flash to to render a simple (and hard to use) menu system,
2. It dosen't work in anything beside IE6 (Windows XP and an Intel CPU/nVidia video card are implied),
3. It uses tiled IMAGES of text instead of.... "text", as the web designers are to lazy/dumb to work out how to position their text in HTML properly (i.e. this ), or even better USE FLASH just to render the text (see the footer of Korean Air's website),
I have a background in Asian linguistics, and I don't think there's a real direct linguistic reason for these elements in Japanese, Korean and Chinese websites, I think it's (VERY simplified) more likely to be a historical/cultural thing than anything else.
This. Thank you. I love how most Westerners (i.e. usually Caucasians), think that their hopeless second language skill is special and treat it like it's some kind of linguistic pissing contest. Notice that those "foreigners" cooking your food at your local ethnic restaurant or dry-cleaning your clothes don't seem to think that learning English makes them particularly special.