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Re: CHAT: various infotaining natlang tidbits

From:Jonathan Chang <zhang2323@...>
Date:Thursday, June 15, 2000, 6:08
In a message dated 2000/06/15 05:14:19 AM, you wrote:

>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. >
Joe Mondello writes:
>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?) >
oh that's it. my bad...
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