article_snippet: South Koreans have incorporated many English words and phrases into South Koreans language while isolated communist North Korea North Korea has eliminated words with foreign origins and created homegrown substitutes.
article_snippet: But they mean absolutely nothing to defectors from the insular North Korea.
article_snippet: the North's isolation near-worship of the ruling Kim family (pictured centre, leader Kim Jong-un) has also skewed the language .
article_snippet: North and South Koreans are generally able to understand each other given that the majority of words and grammar are still the same .
article_snippet: The huge cultural influence of America through America military presence, business ties and Hollywood has flooded the South Korean vernacular with words borrowed from English. '
article_snippet: In North Korea's view, this is just further evidence that the South is an American cultural colony.
article_snippet: The North's isolation and near-worship of the ruling Kim family has also skewed the language.
article_snippet: South Koreans watch a 'musical' but North Koreans see a 'gamuiyagi,' or 'music and dance story.' '
article_snippet: South Koreans often end South Koreans conversations with phrases like 'Let's have lunch someday' or 'Let's go out for drinks soon,' but North Korean defectors who have just arrived often take those as literal invitations and expect a follow-up phone call to arrange the appointment.
article_snippet: Misunderstandings can arise to seemingly innocuous Korean phrases like, 'Let's do lunch sometime,' which those in the South frequently use as a friendly ending to conversations, even with casual acquaintances.
article_snippet: But newly arrived North Korean defectors take such invitations literally, and are often dismayed or offended when newly arrived North Korean defectors don't get a follow-up phone call. '
article_snippet: If someone uses such empty words in North Korea, newly arrived North Korean defectors'll see newly arrived North Korean defectors relations with others cut off and be branded as a faithless person,' said a defector who asked not to be identified because of worries that doing so would put family members in The North at risk.
article_snippet: Linguists say it takes about two years for North Korean defectors to feel comfortable conversing in North Korea.
article_snippet: During last year's meeting in Pyongyang, South Korean linguist Kim Byungmoon said South Korean linguist Kim Byungmoon tried to explain how South Koreans use the English word 'glamour' as a noun to refer to a voluptuous woman, but North Korean scholars had difficulty understanding North Korean usage.
highlights_snippet: South Koreans incorporate English words and phrases into South Koreans language .
  
highlights_snippet: But in communist North Korea, words with foreign origins are eliminated .