Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Who Let the Dogs Out?


Known in America widely for being a pretty ridiculous song, "Who Let the Dogs Out?" was actually quite famous in Korea for a while as well. Although Americans enjoyed it for its somewhat nonsensical lyrics and vaguely catchy tune, Koreans liked it for a different reason. Specifically, the song appealed to the younger generation. It turns out that the title/ commonly repeated lyric of the song "Who Let the Dogs Out?" sounds like words in the Korean language. In Hangeul (the Korean alphabet), the line would be written as such: "우울할 때 똥 싸."

The English phonetic equivalent of that text is "ooh-ool hal dae ddong ssa."

It translates to "When I feel gloomy, I poop."

Kind of different.

6 comments:

  1. That picture is amazing. I'm a little concerned about what you had to google to find it, though.

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  2. Google actually failed me for finding pictures. What you're looking at here are JessBrown originals.

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  3. That's .. not much more comforting, haha.

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  4. What ridiculous song? You sang that song continuously

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  5. Whow whow, who let the dogs out, whow whu who le

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