-rep Nice work, Scout! I didn't realize missing money was your special skill. Did you think it was optional, or are you just aiming to make the robots feel better about themselves? Maybe next time, you could try actually picking it up instead of speed-running to the respawn room!

Anyways, um... I bought a whole bunch of shungite rocks, do you know what shungite is? Anybody know what shungite is? No, not Suge Knight, I think he's locked up in prison. I'm talkin' shungite. Anyways, it's a two billion year-old like, rock stone that protects against frequencies and unwanted frequencies that may be traveling in the air. That's my story, I bought a whole bunch of stuff. Put 'em around the la casa. Little pyramids, stuff like that.

signed by loud salmona

Now, who is higher status? It’s fairly self-explanatory: Anyone older than you, a stranger of the same age, your boss, a customer, your professor, military rank, etc.

In cases where you’re speaking to someone of higher status, you should never refer to them with the Korean word for “you,” and you should never use their name. Instead, you’ll want to use an honorific with them. Oppa is one of these potential honorifics.

With that Confucian mindset comes an intense understanding of, and respect for, the relationships between people as laid out by fixed characteristics, like age or office. This provides an understanding of who is higher and lower in status. And the Korean language makes a constant effort to reflect these distinctions.

The most important thing to be aware of is who is higher than you in status. If you’re the big dog, you can get away with more, so it’s not quite as important to worry about those lower in status than you.

Some Historical and Social Context
One thing to keep in mind when thinking about the meaning and usage of oppa, is that hierarchies are exceptionally important in Korea. You see, Korea was heavily influenced by Chinese Confucianism.

In fact, they were so enamored with the idea that it’s widely thought that Koreans are even more Confucian than the very progenitors, the Chinese themselves.