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Antoine
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States7481 Posts
October 25 2010 16:19 GMT
#41
Finally people will stop suggesting crazy things... I almost lost my head last night in the LR thread when so many people were insisting it was "well won".
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Krigwin
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
1130 Posts
October 25 2010 16:23 GMT
#42
Since Starcraft is such a big deal in Korea, they should just make keyboards with a built-in GG button that types it in automatically.

Or better yet, the Korean SC2 client should have an option that says GG and then leaves the game for you.
mOnion
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States5657 Posts
October 25 2010 16:29 GMT
#43
oh wow I didn't know people were confused as to what this meant

nicely written OP for the noobs ^_^ welcome to Korean Starcraft gais
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Caphe
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Vietnam10817 Posts
October 25 2010 16:32 GMT
#44
People who still insist ww is well won are stupid.
Really, this is a very simple situation. Originally you type GG, since GG sound like "zi zi" or "gee gee"
Korean characters actually are like alphabet so they can use Korean character to type the sound"gee gee" as well and that happen to be "ww" on English keyboard. How difficult is it to understand this very simple thing..
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GaliKo
Profile Joined November 2009
Canada207 Posts
October 25 2010 16:36 GMT
#45
Hell, I had someone tell me it stood for "weird world" as like you donno how you lost that but you did.
silentreality
Profile Joined March 2008
Korea (South)222 Posts
October 25 2010 16:47 GMT
#46
Unfortunately I have some more work to do, so I won't be able to do a double header Informative Post session regarding the use of YO.

Maybe tomorrow!
sleepingdog
Profile Joined August 2008
Austria6145 Posts
October 25 2010 17:49 GMT
#47
lol this should be a sticky, if I have to read another "well won" I'll go into ragemode

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Misanthrope
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States924 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-25 18:04:56
October 25 2010 18:04 GMT
#48
+ Show Spoiler +
On October 26 2010 00:17 deth2munkies wrote:
That makes a lot more sense, I was wondering why there were 3 different variants instead of 2 (gg, ww, and the 2 Korean symbols my keyboard can't type) and know I know.
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User was temp banned for this post.


hahaha why was this guy tb'd?
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MusiK
Profile Joined August 2010
United States302 Posts
October 25 2010 18:07 GMT
#49
On October 26 2010 00:36 biomech wrote:
afaik, in japanese "yo" is just to emphasize something.
like "neko ga imasu." - "there is a cat.", "neko ga imasu yo!" - "hey dude wtf, there is a cat, wow!"

i guess that also works in the korean language - so "gg yo" might be the korean-ish counterpart to "gg wp"!?


Koreans use 'yo' as a formality. This is used to denote the acknowledgment of speaking to a superior or elder.

When happiness said ggyo to boxer, he was being uber polite. =D
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Snowfield
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
1289 Posts
October 25 2010 18:09 GMT
#50
funfact: "w" in japanese is used like "lol" as the word for laughing is "warau" so Japanese people type out wwwwwww instead of lolololololol
Kishkumen
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States650 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-25 18:29:51
October 25 2010 18:17 GMT
#51
On October 26 2010 00:36 biomech wrote:
afaik, in japanese "yo" is just to emphasize something.
like "neko ga imasu." - "there is a cat.", "neko ga imasu yo!" - "hey dude wtf, there is a cat, wow!"

i guess that also works in the korean language - so "gg yo" might be the korean-ish counterpart to "gg wp"!?

Why would you guess that two completely unrelated languages aside from some vocab borrowings have the same meaning for a grammatical particle? It's great that you know some Japanese, but it has almost nothing to do with Korean.
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Goobus
Profile Joined May 2010
Hong Kong587 Posts
October 25 2010 18:19 GMT
#52
I thought it was obvious -_-
Bijan
Profile Joined October 2010
United States286 Posts
October 25 2010 19:46 GMT
#53
I always thought it meant "waka waka" or "wah wah" or some other insulting phrase to the effect of "Thanks for Trying".
AwfulPlayer
Profile Joined August 2010
249 Posts
October 25 2010 22:09 GMT
#54
On October 26 2010 03:19 Goobus wrote:
I thought it was obvious -_-

for the asian ppl maybe.

thx for clarification OP. when i first saw the WW i was like "wtf 300 apm and still not hitting the correct keys ?"
ryanAnger
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States838 Posts
October 25 2010 22:27 GMT
#55
On October 26 2010 01:16 eNtitY~ wrote:
Tasteless/Artosis said in one of the GSL casts it means Well Won.


They were just joking.
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SoL[9]
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
Portugal1370 Posts
October 25 2010 22:28 GMT
#56
Ty for this info.

On October 26 2010 01:47 silentreality wrote:
Unfortunately I have some more work to do, so I won't be able to do a double header Informative Post session regarding the use of YO.

Maybe tomorrow!


That would be pretty sweet to
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R0YAL
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United States1768 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-10-25 22:40:15
October 25 2010 22:36 GMT
#57
This was not really a mystery but apparently it was to a lot of people.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Wolf
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Korea (South)3290 Posts
October 25 2010 22:41 GMT
#58
I thought everyone knew this already hahaha
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.zch
Profile Joined July 2010
37 Posts
October 25 2010 22:48 GMT
#59
Thank you for the information. I was not aware of it, and it helps me understand. It's often easy to take small things like this for granted (see: all the "LOL EVERY1 KNOS THIS" posts) but it was a helpful thread to many of us who either aren't long-time SC/BW/War3 followers or simply didn't know. I applaud minor contributions like this, as they benefit people who don't know and people who already do can simply ignore them at their leisure.
jamesr12
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States1549 Posts
October 25 2010 22:57 GMT
#60
On October 26 2010 03:04 Misanthrope wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
On October 26 2010 00:17 deth2munkies wrote:
That makes a lot more sense, I was wondering why there were 3 different variants instead of 2 (gg, ww, and the 2 Korean symbols my keyboard can't type) and know I know.
[image loading]


User was temp banned for this post.


hahaha why was this guy tb'd?


image macros are frowned upon
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