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[ChopChaeJoe]

[HapKi]

There was a famous Korean sex video passing hands in the late nineties called "빨간마후라" (The Red Muffler). I'm sure some of you have heard of it. Anyways, 마후라 is the Japanese pronunciation of "muffler", an English loan word picked up by the Japanese way back when. During the first half of the 20th century, during Japanese occupation of Korea, a lot of these loan word bastardizations, (Japlish, if you will), trickled into Korea, especially since speaking Korean was forbidden and everyone had to speak Japanese. Some words remain in use in Korean, especially by kids who don't know the origin, and by the older generations who still code switch between Korean and Japanese, as that's what they're used to.

Anyways, back to the video. Even though Korean has 스카프, 목도리, and others, the kids who made the video called it 마후라, unaware of its Japanese and ultimately English origins. By the way, I've happened to umm...err..see the video, and the gal's wearing a scarf.

[princess]

Yes, I call it a muffler.

[djsmnc]

If that's where you buy them, then they can be called mufflers.

[ilovebdt]

[tzechuk]