A question

Valeria Incoletti tcup77 at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 8 11:35:48 UTC 2001


A korean friend just laughed his head off but said it's
true and he actually heard koreans being called Gook in the
USA. He's not a linguist but he did confirmed it. Me-gok is
the word for America in Korean, Gok is country and Me
literally means Beautiful (For the ones who know Chinese,
it's exactly the same as Meiguo) and tries to reproduce the
sound -me- of aMErica.

Valeria

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