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Old Posted Aug 24, 2018, 4:32 AM
BillinGlendaleCA BillinGlendaleCA is offline
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Originally Posted by Lorendoc View Post


OK so i wanted to know what the words above the door of Yoshiko's Catalina's successor said. Last night I went to a favorite Korean ice-cream place (Ihwamun, in Little Tokyo) and showed the picture to an employee who read it without hesitation as "mil mul" [corrected from -mun] but didn't know what it meant. Knowing almost zero about the construction of the alphabet, much less Korean computer keyboard layout, nonetheless with the help of the all-powerful GOOGLE, I figured out how to type the letters on the sign as:

밀물 = "high tide"

Corrections appreciated!
I'll ask Madame, she's a native speaker.
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