Small drops make a shower. Good. I believe in it. So, on a daily basis, I learn a couple of expressions by heart hoping someday I will have little difficulty in understanding them. Today I chose expressions like I used to and found something weird.
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Here it is.
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A guy and his sweetheart have a chat and he jokingly asks his girl if she has another man. She says she has one in response which is simply a jest. When the guy asked her whether she has any other man she is seeing, she talked back.
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"We only mess around at his place." The rendered Korean is, "그 남자 집에서만 만나.“
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Doesn't messing around involve sexual activities ? Isn't it somewhat different from just meeting? I got curious if it is okay to say to your casual friend, not a very close one,
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"Let's mess around at noon, all right ?“
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How would you feel if I say to you,
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"How about messing around in front of the library at one o'clock?" instead of
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"Let's meet in front of the library at one o'clock?"
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Will I be treated as a psycho ? I wonder.^^
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첫댓글`Mess around’ means `spend time without a specific plan,’ similar to such expressions as hang/idle/fool around or goofing off. Let me give you an example from Longman Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs: A: What have you been doing today? (오늘 뭐했니?) B: Oh, nothing, just messing around. (그냥 빈둥거렸
지 뭐.) But note that the word `mess’ usually connotes something bad or negative as seen when used as a noun. Look at the following: Who’s been messing around with my papers? They’re all out of order. (누가 내 서류들 망쳐 논거야? 온통 뒤죽박죽이잖아.)
/ I warned you not to mess around with married women, it always leads to trouble. (내가 유부녀랑 놀아나지 말라고 경고했잖아. 항상 문제가 된단말야.) As you can see, `mess around (with)’ also means `spoil something’ or ` have a sexual relationship with someone.’ But do not take this phrasal verb
as polysemy; imagine something scattered around without any fixed order or good purpose. This is the general picture the word `mess’ gives and, in fact, all seemingly different meanings of it listed in the dictionary come of that picture.
Let’s turn to your sentences. Its meaning differs a little from that of `meet’ and sometimes may imply some sexuality, I recommend using `get together’ if you just want to meet the other or `hang around’ if you want to stay around there doing no special and planned stuff.
Thank you so much.^.^ In all, 'mess around' may make you imagine some physical relationship or something like that only occasionally. So, if my girfriend says "Oh.. I messed around today." Then I don't have be angry because she only meant '그냥 빈둥거렸어.' and nothing else ?
You're right.. I am a j/k (jerk) to ask that. ^.^ If she says, 'I messed around today', I will let her put it another way as you suggested. 'Hey, sweety. Don't mess around. Just hang around, okay?" ^^ Just j/k (joke)^^
첫댓글 `Mess around’ means `spend time without a specific plan,’ similar to such expressions as hang/idle/fool around or goofing off. Let me give you an example from Longman Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs: A: What have you been doing today? (오늘 뭐했니?) B: Oh, nothing, just messing around. (그냥 빈둥거렸
지 뭐.) But note that the word `mess’ usually connotes something bad or negative as seen when used as a noun. Look at the following: Who’s been messing around with my papers? They’re all out of order. (누가 내 서류들 망쳐 논거야? 온통 뒤죽박죽이잖아.)
/ I warned you not to mess around with married women, it always leads to trouble. (내가 유부녀랑 놀아나지 말라고 경고했잖아. 항상 문제가 된단말야.) As you can see, `mess around (with)’ also means `spoil something’ or ` have a sexual relationship with someone.’ But do not take this phrasal verb
as polysemy; imagine something scattered around without any fixed order or good purpose. This is the general picture the word `mess’ gives and, in fact, all seemingly different meanings of it listed in the dictionary come of that picture.
Let’s turn to your sentences. Its meaning differs a little from that of `meet’ and sometimes may imply some sexuality, I recommend using `get together’ if you just want to meet the other or `hang around’ if you want to stay around there doing no special and planned stuff.
Thank you so much.^.^ In all, 'mess around' may make you imagine some physical relationship or something like that only occasionally. So, if my girfriend says "Oh.. I messed around today." Then I don't have be angry because she only meant '그냥 빈둥거렸어.' and nothing else ?
Or do I have to force her to spit it out ? I'm happy my girlfriend speaks Korean.^.^
Haha..funny.. Yeah, just trust her. Above all, if she'd really done something bad like that, do you think she'd confess to it so easily? j/k ^^;
You're right.. I am a j/k (jerk) to ask that. ^.^ If she says, 'I messed around today', I will let her put it another way as you suggested. 'Hey, sweety. Don't mess around. Just hang around, okay?" ^^ Just j/k (joke)^^