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2006-07-14 03:09:49 · 11 answers · asked by rvn 1 in Politics & Government Military

11 answers

no he's not the cream of the crop in the US education system he must be french

2006-07-14 03:33:41 · answer #1 · answered by Mr. B 2 · 1 0

North Corea is correct, the Japanese changed the C to a K when they were at war, the all conquering rising sun did not like the name Corea being before Japan Alphabetically . So endeth this lesson.

2006-07-20 14:09:48 · answer #2 · answered by Robert H 2 · 0 0

North Corea not sure about .... but North Korea
Yes it is inhabited people do live there
Maybe a book might tell you more or the web.

2006-07-14 10:19:20 · answer #3 · answered by rachelsweet2001 4 · 0 0

Corea is the spanish word for mail. I am quite sure that northern countries have post offices too if that is what you mean.

2006-07-14 10:14:03 · answer #4 · answered by name 2 · 0 0

The K-initial spelling of "Korea" is NOT a relic of Japanese colonialism! Please do not be idiotic. The name "Korea" is a CORRUPTION (made by European adventurers or Central Asian intermediaries) of the native Korean name for the earlier of their medieval dynasties, the 高麗 고려 Dynasty, whose name is normally romanized as "Koryeo" or "Koryo" (with a shallow u-shaped diacritic over the second "o"). The name of the Koryeo Dynasty itself is a corruption or later development of 高句麗 고구려 "Kokuryeo," a country which was called Koma or Koukuri by the ancient Japanese, who appear to have had a close relationship to it. Kokuryeo was an ancient country that occupied the territory which is now North Korea and parts of northeastern China. The name "Kokuryeo" was probably reanalyzed by later generations as "Kuryeo" prefixed with the Chinese word for "tall, high," owing to Chinese historians' writing that the Chinese emperor, who detested the nation of Kokuryeo, nicknamed them 下句麗 or "Low Kuryeo." Of course, this was probably nothing more than a Chinese pun, and the full name of the Korean nation was probably Kokuryeo (not Kuryeo), so maybe "Coreans" should change their name to "Cocureans" instead?

Of course, the romanization "Koryeo" or "Koryo" is a modern, academic creation, made using systematic rules of transcription designed to faithfully (i.e., one "symbol unit"/written representation for each sound, and only one sound for each "symbol unit"/written representation) represent the Korean language in Roman letters. Such intelligent precision in the written representation of language is a recent invention. The Korean alphabet, or Hangul, allowed the Korean people to develop an impressively accurate written representation of their language in the 15th century, but Europeans, who are the ones who developed such spellings as "Korea" and "Corea," generally did not have such a penchant for logical orthography.

In fact, Europeans changed the name of Korea in a way similar to how they changed the names of most other East Asian countries, e.g., "China" and "Japan." Basically, they made the names look more European than they actually were. The name "China" comes from a word that should really be written "Shin" in standard Modern English orthography. This European name has absolutely NOTHING to do with the Chinese people's name for their own country, which literally means "Middle Country," (in Mandarin) sounds and would be spelled something like "Zhong Guo," which is totally dissimilar to "China." "Japan" comes from an old pronunciation of the Chinese characters for "sun" and "root/source," which together are pronounced as "nihon" or "nippon" in Japanese, but the European names for the country certainly deviate far from the native (i.e., Japanese) form of the name. You Koreans actually got a good deal - at least we call you by a name that SORT OF resembles a name that you historically applied to yourselves! So just stop complaining, OK? We'll write the name of your country however we want to write it.

2006-07-21 04:49:17 · answer #5 · answered by rookethorne 6 · 0 0

Heaven, cheep beer, free girls, virgins are available at the first demand, food is fantastic, foreign women have nothing to do there, but men....will stay there forever, at least as long as they need teenagers for fun. No problem, like Hawaii 300 years ago.

2006-07-14 10:18:10 · answer #6 · answered by Arturo 2 · 0 0

where exactly is corea?

2006-07-14 10:12:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Yes where is Corea?Have looked on Google Earth and cant find it.Clues please?

2006-07-14 10:16:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

LOL - Fantastic! Please don't tell me that you are a product of the English eduction system or I might have to go and top myself!

2006-07-14 10:19:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Koreans? Koreans' houses?

It's kinda common sense, isn't it?

2006-07-15 14:51:07 · answer #10 · answered by binga 1 · 0 0

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