Re: CHAT: various infotaining natlang tidbits
| From: | Joe Mondello <rugpretzel@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 15, 2000, 5:14 |
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In a message dated 6/14/00 11:28:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
Zhang2323@AOL.COM writes:
> What about _gook_? that has some currency in certain circles *bittersweet
> snafle* Someone - an Asian - once told me it originally came from a
> mispronounced Vietnamese hill tribe word.
I was under the impression that it came from the korean word (?) for
'nation', gook. e.g. han gook = korea (or is it korean person?)
Joe Mondello