Re: FYI re: Greenberg's Universals

Yoon Ha Lee wrote:

> OC, your *average* Korean doesn't have too high an opinion of Japanese.
> "Waeran" in "Imjin Waeran" (the Imjin War, 1592-1598) was a term for the
> Japanese meaning, according to Prof. Strauss at Cornell, something like
> "dwarf."  Ironic considering that we Koreans aren't exactly a tall folk.
Borrowed from Chinese, I suppose: "eastern dwarf (barbarian)" was a standard
expression for Japanese persons.

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