Thursday, June 19, 2025

How will the Korean language change in the future?

ANSWER: I'm not exactly sure how the Korean language will change, but I suspect that Koreans will continue to change their language in ways that help them to better imitate English expressions, thinking that it will make them sound more sophisticated.

For example, the verb 갖다, which is an abbreviation of 가지다, means "to have" or "to hold," in the sense of to possess something, but Koreans also use it to mean "개최하다," which means "to hold or to have (a meeting)" or "to open (an exhibition)." That seems kind of suspicious to me and makes me wonder if Koreans started using 갖다 to mean "to have or to hold (a meeting)" only after they started becoming interested in learning the English language. Anyway, these days it seems that 갖다 is quickly replacing 개최하다 when talking about "to have a meeting" or "to open an exhibition, fair, or competition." 
Will Koreans soon start thinking of 개최하다 as one of those words that only pretentious people use? 
 

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