Glishkong
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Glishkong is the use of Korean words (or words derived from Korean words) in an English context or an English dialect mixed with Korean loanwords. It also includes the use of words that are perceived to be Korean, but are in fact not Korean words. These could be words that have a different meaning in Glishkong than they have in Korean, words that merely look or sound Korean, or words that are a mixture of English and Korean. English speakers usually use the word exclusively in the latter sense. The term Glishkong is a back-formation of Konglish.
[edit] Origins of Glishkong
Glishkong is a term coined by Kevin Kim denoting an anglophone misappropriation (or reappropriation) of a Korean word or phrase.
A native English-speaker fluent in Korean who works as a professional translator and runs a site called Liminality has proposed two alternative terms for this phenomenon: Engorean and Hondong-eo (혼동어, 混同語, "mixed-up/confused language").
[edit] Debate
There is some debate as to whether Glishkong is a lexical phenomenon, or is articulatory in nature. It is possible to argue in the favour of both sides. In Korean, (or more correctly Konglish) the English word "Woman" is pronounced "u-meon" (Transliteration: 우먼) and can be referred to as a Konglish pronunciation. If we can accept Glishkong as a back-formation of Konglish then the rules and practices governing each dialect could arguably be interchangeable. On the other hand, it could be that terms and phrases described as Glishkong are, in fact, the mispronunciations of speakers coming to grips with learning Korean, and do not constitute a separate dialogue or language.
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