"Horse" and "language" in Korean

Language Log 2019-10-30

Summary:

A Korean student was just in my office and saw this book on my table:  mal-ui segyesa 말의 세계사. She said, "Oh, a world history of words!" But I knew that couldn't be right because the book is a world history of horses.  It's actually a Korean translation of this book by Pita Kelekna: The […]

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https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=44830

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Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

10/30/2019, 13:22

Date published:

10/30/2019, 08:15