I gotta say folks, I was disappointed in the meager turn-out for the recent Konglish Quiz question. But because it's been several months since I actually POSTED a Konglish question, I'll cut you some slack. Surprisingly, neither of the two votes this week were correct. The winning answer was the first one - a musical style. The Konglish word "trot" stems from the English word "foxtrot" which was a happenin' music style in the early part of the 20th century. I'm not sure how similar the two styles are, but a lot of the modern music the older Koreans listen to would be considered "trot." Think of the cheap canned music behind some of the mexican music you might here, and that's exactly what I'm talking about.
As far as the crazy "tu-lote" pronunciation goes, chalk that up to the inability of Koreans to pronounce the consonants "t" and "r" next to each other. They gotta throw a vowel in there.
Well, that's all for today. Be sure to check in again and vote for the next Konglish question which should be along shortly. In fact, it may be there already.
Later
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