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By: Aceface

Aceface — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:22:59 +0000

“Bird names can be tricky. For example, just looking up 雉(or雉子) itself gives “common pheasant” as a definition. The same dictionary gives “ring-necked (Chinese) pheasant for 高麗雉. I don’t know why, because those characters sure don’t mean China (g).”

Resident bird-watcher is here.

Common Pheasant is basically a species originated in Asia,and introduced into North America as gamebird.I’d imagine those who introduced the birds hesitated to use the word “common” to an alien species to America.Also certain sub-species originated in North East Asia is being called as “Ring-Necked”,because lots of sub-species including Japan’s Green Pheasant doesn’t have white ring around it’s neck.

By: mac

mac — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:48:30 +0000

I am trying to think about a suitable caption to a cartoon of ‘The Pheasant Atrocity’ (which no doubt the ’sneaky’ neo-imperialist Japanese will revise in their kindergarten text books to something innocuous “The Phasianus Colchicus Incident”).

The best I can come up with so far is;

First pheasant: Funny, I always thought I would end up working in Chinese restaurant
Second pheasant: But … I voted for the GNP and Lee Myung-bak!?!
Third pheasant: But … my father was imprisoned and tortured by General Park for speaking out about similar atrocities after the Korean War
Fourth pheasant: But … my brothers brought in revenue by fighting in a Korea division for the Americans in Vietnam War
Fifth pheasant: But … my aunties brought in foreign currency by patriotic surrender in American camptowns and servicing Japanese Kisaeng tourists.
Sixth pheasant: Sisters, we must sacrifice ourselves for the sake of all that guano on Dokdo …
Seventh pheasant: My cousin Dong-Sun in Flushing says that if this was America, we would have made it through until the first of October …
Eighth pheasant: I am just glad they did not rape us first before they killed us
Ninth pheasant: WE MUST RESTORE THE EMPEROR AND INVADE CHINA!!!!!!!!

On a less serious note … I was looking at the English language pages of Lee Myung-bak’s blog and am wondering at some of the constructions. Bearing in mind this is an intelligent gentleman at the helm of a modern nation

http://english.president.go.kr/pre_activity/latest/latest_view.php?uno=263

Quickly after a “Clarification of President’s remarks on the Dokdo issue on July 15″, the president issued a press release, “Dokdo issue should be coped with through a long-term strategy, not expedient measures” in which he wonderously was able to weave into the Dildo Islands issue the entirely unconnected reference of the shooting of South Korean tourist by North Koreans and compared Japan to unrepentant Nazi Germany revisionists.

Meanwhile, Korean is most certainly winning the cyber war with a fabby Flash power website of Dokdo, remarketed as The Island of Peace. If I have time, I will transcribe the commentary likening it not just to Yakusuni Shrine but a “imperial threat to Korea and other Asian countries” etc.

http://english.dokdohistory.com/

By: Left Flank: Onward Korean Soldiers...to Tsushima?

Left Flank: Onward Korean Soldiers...to Tsushima? — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:42:45 +0000

[...] ROK Ambassador to Japan Kwon Chul-hyun for his provocative rants against his Japanese fantasy, it’s not the Japanese antagonizing the South Koreans that’s the reality at all I had to piece the story of the ambassador together out of three different reports. One I read this [...]

By: ChoSeungHui

ChoSeungHui — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:29:03 +0000

Japanese, Americans, Chinese, Europeans and all other civilized first world countries consider Dokdo a place to collect bird dung. They think about it as much as they think about what the weather is like in Borneo.

Koreans think of Dokdo as their heavenly birthplace and will lose sleep over it and pull their hair out 24 hours/day, 7 days a week constantly watching the internet to see if the wind direction has changed on Dokdo.

LOL..how pathetic.

By: ChoSeungHui

ChoSeungHui — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:28:29 +0000

Koreans don’t want to take the Dokdo/Takeshima issue to the ICJ in The Hague because Korean culture and society does not recognize the court system of justice and law. Koreans have no concept of “laws” and “rules”. In Korea, whoever screams the loudest or waves the largest amount of money in his hand is the person who rules over others. Such a lawless and corrupt society in which there is no concept or respect for ethical principles would be a joke if it tried to actually adopt a civilized legal system such as those employed by first world countries. Koreans also are incapable of understanding the concept of having to provide evidence to prove an argument. In Korea, whoever screams the loudest is the one who wins an argument, not the person who provides the best evidence.

By: ChoSeungHui

ChoSeungHui — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:47:40 +0000

Watching Koreans reminds alot of watching “The Three Stooges” on TV..except that in the case of the Koreans, they aren’t acting. The stuff they say is real.

“Island Nation” is an insult in Korea? Hahaha…I think it stems more from an inferiority complex in that both the UK and Japan being small island nations were able to kick major ass (namely that of Korea) in the past few hundred years. Please, believe me…Korea wishes secretly that it could have been even 1/10 as powerful as an island nation such as Britain or Japan. Too bad they are stuck with being only a half-ass island (peninsula).

By: tornadoes28

tornadoes28 — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:51:43 +0000

What is it about extreme Korean nationlism? It’s one thing to be patriotic but they seem to go way over board. To me it is similar to the reaction they had about American beef imports. Yes, I understand people being worried about suspected unhealthy beef. But the Koreans were having massive and sometime violent protests against allowing American beef into the country. To me it seemed to be more a nationalistic response to protect dear Korean domestic beef.

I also am seeing this overheated extreme nationalism in China now as well.

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And You Thought Vershbow Was Blunt? | The Marmot's Hole — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:02:48 +0000

[...] Give a listen to Kwon Chul-hyun, Korea’s ambassador to Japan (currently recalled to Seoul in protest of the whole Dokdo thing): Japan has the same island country characteristics as England. They dislike isolation, so they have the inherent desire to advance onto the continent. South Korea should utilize that in reverse. [...]

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:35:22 +0000

Link of Reuters reporting the video that Korean phesants raw bowels are dug in is uploaded in TAKESHIMA-SHIMANE PREFECTURE.

Korea herself was teaching Takeshima is not in Korean territory and the US defined Takeshima as Japanese territory as follows.
http://www.enjoykorea.jp/tbbs/read.php?board_id=ttalk&nid=1111904&start_range=1111869&end_range=1111904

“Don’t go too far with your childish behavior, Koreans!” by Asahi Weekly.
http://publications.asahi.com/ecs/detail/?item_id=9594

By: ampontan

ampontan — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:53:52 +0000

Thanks for that, Fh.

Bird names can be tricky. For example, just looking up 雉(or雉子) itself gives “common pheasant” as a definition. The same dictionary gives “ring-necked (Chinese) pheasant for 高麗雉. I don’t know why, because those characters sure don’t mean China (g).

The green pheasant is a subspecies of the common pheasant found only in Japan, according to another source.