[KS] using numbers to form phrases

[Witteveen GP]

Dear colleagues,





I'd like to ask your help with language play in Korean (and other languages you may know, too).

The morning radio show in USA, Weekend Edition Saturday, on October 18, 2014 included this story, "Chinese Find Number URLs Easier Than Letters."
Transcript at www.npr.org/templates/ transcript/transcript.php? storyId=357153450

When I was in Japan, I can remember "kotoba asobi" (suji asobi?) in telephone numbers, too. 
I am curious about Korean language play.
Please fill in some examples you have seen. And ask your students, friends and family to contribute, too!
http://goo.gl/forms/ok0ZFP3nzv

Hit "submit" and then view the growing number of examples contributed by others.


=-=-=-=-=-=-= Here are the opening lines of the radio story transcript:

A lot of Chinese websites seem to have a different form of URLs, or web addresses. They use numbers, not names. 
Long numbers, too, seemingly at random. McDonald's website isn't spelled McDonald's, it's 4008-517-517.cn. 


A dating website is 5201314.com. Why? Christopher Beam, staff writer with The New Republic, who lives in Beijing 
wondered and that's when he began to notice that the numbers are hardly random.

or listen to the broadcast version,
http://www.npr.org/2014/10/18/ 357153450/chinese-find-number- urls-easier-than-letters


Sincerely,

Guven Peter Witteveen, sjmi at hotmail dotcom

; skype address: gpwitteveen
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