Thursday, February 19, 2009

Pretty Girl

OK, one more. This was a bit easier than the previous song since half the lyrics is bad English.
Pretty Girl

If you wanna pretty every wanna pretty
안된다는 맘은 no no no no
If you wanna pretty every wanna pretty
어디서나 당당하게 걷기

나와 맞는 옷에 또 받쳐주는 말투
센스있는 포즈 그냥 되지를 않죠
생활 상식은 기본 시사 상식은 선택
다 끊임 없는 노력이죠

Girl! Pretty girl! Pretty girl!
조금도 망설일 것 없죠
난 Beautiful girl!
Beautiful girl! Beautiful! ye ye ye ye
Girl! Pretty girl! Pretty girl!
그냥 되진 않는거죠
난 Beautiful girl! Beautiful!
ye ye ye ye C'mon beautiful girl!

마음은 예쁘게 표정은 산뜻하게
하루를 시작하면서 잊지 말아야 하죠
두 눈을 깜박이며 살짝 미소 지으면
이젠 모든게 완벽하죠

Once again, there are several words that Google Translate can't figure out (산뜻하게). If I use the other translator, it converts all the Hangul but none of it makes any sense. Maybe there's slang words that are not official/common. I'm also noticing that it makes a huge difference to the translation program where you put spaces between the symbol blocks. Since I really don't understand any Korean, and all this is just a pattern matching exercise, I'm not sure if what I've typed means anything.

One of the singers in KARA is Nicole Jung who is on Star Golden Bell right now. Again, she's on SGB because she grew up in America and her Korean is not that good. If so, why is the English so bad (though catchy) in this song?!


If you wanna pretty, every wanna pretty...

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