anon · 1y
My Korean listening skills aren't great so I wanted to ask you if my impressions are correct. It seems like Han sometimes doesn't call Lee Know with hyung and Felix also sometimes doesn't with Chan, esp in English. But then it seems like recently Hyunjin has stopped using hyung with Changbin all the time, but unlike the other two, it's only in the last few months. But I could be very wrong! Have you noticed any of this?
all of these are relatively true! lino has talked before about how he doesn’t really think jisung should view him as a hyung when he’s more of a friend, so you see jisung dropping hyung with lino a fair amount, though it’s not all the time by any stretch. felix never uses hyung with chan in english, because that’s not something that would exist between them in australian culture, and they keep english pretty separate in some ways so that they keep practicing their accents and don’t lose them, etc. hyunjin and changbin have always had a lot of running jokes about the hyung distinction (changbin calls hyunjin hyung a fair amount when he wants to be babied by him, especially early on when he was not necessarily “hyung line” in the group), but i think hyunjin has dropped hyung more lately due to the fact that they’re using international age. it’ll be interesting to see if he picks back up again after changbin’s birthday or if he keeps the joke and modifies it! 🥰
