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  • duderium [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    “Meejaynom,” 미제놈, American imperialist bastard, is from Korean and is pretty great. It’s also much faster and easier to say because Korean is refined while English is a language of barbarians.

    • Egon
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      • AernaLingus [any]
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        1 year ago

        I don't know if you're familiar with Chinese, Japanese, or Vietnamese, but those languages as well as Korean have a wealth of words that are derived from a combination of two Chinese characters. Often you'll stick two of those together to get a compound that's four characters (really simple example is 자기소개/自己紹介, composed of 자기/自己 self + 소개/紹介 introduction yielding self-introduction). That can be a mouthful, so sometimes those four character compounds will get abbreviated by taking just the first character of each word; it's similar to how we might make an acronym in a Western language, but each Chinese character can be pronounced by itself and also carries meaning.

        That's exactly what's going on with our Korean example: 미국/米國 America + 제국주의/帝國主義 imperialism (itself a combination of empire and -ism) = 미제/米帝 American imperialism. Then, we slap the native Korean word 놈 on the end which is a derogatory term for a man (e.g. bastard) to yield 米帝놈/미제놈 American imperialist bastard.

        • Egon
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