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Hi guys!
I've been following competitive StarCraft for a little bit (not very long! ^_^; and so far I'm enjoying the fandom, the analyses and other stuff. But sometimes when I read threads here I see you guys use the word 'hwaiting' and I'm not really sure what it means exactly.
From the context I think you guys are cheering for a specific team or player? Because I see stuff like "Flash hwaiting" or "SKT hwaiting" and things like that. Are you implying that they're waiting for something? Like is it meant to mean that they're waiting for their win or their next victim?
I also just assumed that the 'h' is added at the front because of some TL meme? I thought maybe an affluent member typed hwaiting instead of waiting and it became a meme?
Thanks for any answers I get guys ^_^ I hope to enjoy many games of StarCraft with you guys =)
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United States5162 Posts
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I think it comes from "fighting", but I`m not quite sure.
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Yes when Koreans say ”fighting” the ”f” sound often comes out sounding a bit like ”hw”.
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You've been *taking of sunglasses* trololled.
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ALLEYCAT BLUES49816 Posts
it means fighting.
usually during the countdown before the game you can hear the fans at the studio go"3,2,1 x(player's real name) HWAITING!!"
Example:"3,2,1 Lee Young Ho(Flash) HWAITING!!!
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United States7639 Posts
loooool
h waiting
i am clearly way too asian, because it's never even occured to me that hwaiting could be pronounced any other way than fighting without the f.
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Mexico126 Posts
its a word that means gogogo or you can do it its encourgament comes from figthing but koreans have hard time pronunciating "f" so they HW (hwaiting) but its figthing :D
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"1 2 3 TEEEEEEEEEEEEWAAAAAAAANN HWAITING!"
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GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts
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Up until about 2 weeks ago i though Hwaiting came from something Hwasin did. I´ve been following korean starcraft since 2006. True story.
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Registering an account and creating a two paragraph thread takes significantly longer than Googling... just a hunch.
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Whats with the hate this thread is legit.
OP HWAITING~~
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Dont be so harsh guys as you can clearly see she is new here 
Lilly hwaiting
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"Flash hwaiting" is the only appropriate use of the word.
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I pray that this thread, remains unclosed.
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Bisutopia19204 Posts
On February 17 2012 23:17 worked13 wrote:
Registering an account and creating a two paragraph thread takes significantly longer than Googling... just a hunch.
It also took her 4 days to create this OP. 4 Days hwaiting!
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I don't think I've ever come across a word that has been mis-pronounced by a culture because it's 'cool' to use english words, that is then taken in its new form and pronounced as such by practitioners of the original language, because it's 'cool'. Strange.
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On February 17 2012 21:54 Lilly wrote:Hi guys! I've been following competitive StarCraft for a little bit (not very long! ^_^; and so far I'm enjoying the fandom, the analyses and other stuff. But sometimes when I read threads here I see you guys use the word 'hwaiting' and I'm not really sure what it means exactly. From the context I think you guys are cheering for a specific team or player? Because I see stuff like "Flash hwaiting" or "SKT hwaiting" and things like that. Are you implying that they're waiting for something? Like is it meant to mean that they're waiting for their win or their next victim? I also just assumed that the 'h' is added at the front because of some TL meme? I thought maybe an affluent member typed hwaiting instead of waiting and it became a meme? Thanks for any answers I get guys ^_^ I hope to enjoy many games of StarCraft with you guys =)
google > you
http://www.transparent.com/korean/hwaiting-fighting/
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I'm so nuby noob, always thought that was like "waiting" with a h to accentuate. Thanks to this thread i'll sleep smarter tonight
ps: why write it with a "a", it should be written "hwiting" or "hwaïting"
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There's also paiting, which is exactly the same as hwaiting. It just comes from how koreans pronounce the "f".
So 화이팅+ 파이팅 = fighting.
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On February 17 2012 23:37 J1.au wrote:
"Flash hwaiting" is the only appropriate use of the word.
Should be in the BW ten commandments.
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On February 18 2012 00:02 DyEnasTy wrote:Show nested quote +On February 17 2012 23:37 J1.au wrote:
"Flash hwaiting" is the only appropriate use of the word. Should be in the BW ten commandments.
what the fuck
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1019 Posts
please don't type the word "hwaiting" in a non-esports related, non-BW community like facebook or something. I see some people do that and it makes you look really really stupid.
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Hey Lilly!
ive never really given any thoughts about why they use the word "hwaiting" instead of " fighting" but for me its just wrong so im using fighting unless someone tells me some cute story about that ,
whats with the hate in few posts , o.O?
LILLY FIGHTING :D
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On February 17 2012 23:54 Volkspanzer wrote:
I don't think I've ever come across a word that has been mis-pronounced by a culture because it's 'cool' to use english words, that is then taken in its new form and pronounced as such by practitioners of the original language, because it's 'cool'. Strange.
.......... dude every language does that. English has loooooooads of words like that. You need to learn more languages.
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On February 18 2012 00:10 white_horse wrote:
please don't type the word "hwaiting" in a non-esports related, non-BW community like facebook or something. I see some people do that and it makes you look really really stupid.
Jeremy Lin HWAITING!.
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On February 18 2012 00:14 JieXian wrote:Show nested quote +On February 17 2012 23:54 Volkspanzer wrote:
I don't think I've ever come across a word that has been mis-pronounced by a culture because it's 'cool' to use english words, that is then taken in its new form and pronounced as such by practitioners of the original language, because it's 'cool'. Strange. .......... dude every language does that. English has loooooooads of words like that. You need to learn more languages.
He's not talking about taking words from another language but the next step. One language taking a word from a foreign language because it sounds cool, mispronouncing it and then it gets taken back by the people who the original word came from, but they take it back in the mispronounced form because it sounds cool.
If you meant that: english has a lot of those? Do you have some examples?
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ALLEYCAT BLUES49816 Posts
On February 18 2012 00:02 DyEnasTy wrote:Show nested quote +On February 17 2012 23:37 J1.au wrote:
"Flash hwaiting" is the only appropriate use of the word. Should be in the BW ten commandments.
what the fuck?
cult of the flash strikes again.
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SONG BYUNG GOO HWAITING!
No matter the meaning you put to 'hwaiting', you have to believe in it with all your heart!
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LEE YOUNG HO HWAITING.
It means fighting, the Korean fans say it; this usually happens at the start of games to show support for players.
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ALLEYCAT BLUES49816 Posts
On February 18 2012 00:37 OpticalShot wrote:
No matter the meaning you put to 'hwaiting', you have to believe in it with all your heart!
Truth!
Hwaiting!
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The /f/ and /v/ sound do not exist in Korean hence the pronunciation seems to be missing.
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On February 18 2012 00:34 Junichi wrote:Show nested quote +On February 18 2012 00:14 JieXian wrote:On February 17 2012 23:54 Volkspanzer wrote:
I don't think I've ever come across a word that has been mis-pronounced by a culture because it's 'cool' to use english words, that is then taken in its new form and pronounced as such by practitioners of the original language, because it's 'cool'. Strange. .......... dude every language does that. English has loooooooads of words like that. You need to learn more languages. He's not talking about taking words from another language but the next step. One language taking a word from a foreign language because it sounds cool, mispronouncing it and then it gets taken back by the people who the original word came from, but they take it back in the mispronounced form because it sounds cool. If you meant that: english has a lot of those? Do you have some examples?
Oh my bad, skimmed too fast :D
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Netherlands45349 Posts
Flash fans have reached Bisu level(or beyond)
GEEEEEGEEEEEEEEEEEE.
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saying 'f' is easy. just put your top teeth on your bottom lip and breath out through your mouth.
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United States7488 Posts
This really doesn't need to be open or even made in the first place.
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