So next time you hear it in the wild, remember that it was originally Chinese jargon that English speakers wanted to be meaningful so hard that they just ... made it happen. But it didn’t always.
In 1939, he resigned from the Marine Corps because he was being censured for his vocal pro-China views.
1. aggressive esprit de corps; 2. sometimes sardonically employed to characterize cocky indiscipline or contempt toward orthodox procedures and regulations.”.
In 1937, Carlson arrived in Shanghai to serve his third tour in China. ", The Red Army influenced now-Lt. Col. Carlson's leadership in a deeply idealistic way; every man would have input into the plans and officers had no distinct privileges until everyone felt they were earned.
Carlson explained in a 1943 interview: "I was trying to build up the same sort of working spirit I had seen in China where all the soldiers dedicated themselves to one idea and worked together to put that idea over. 工業合作社 was abbreviated, as many long Chinese proper nouns are, to the first character of each part, 工合.
And so, the phrase leaked its way into the English language. One such foreigner was a fellow named Evans Fordyce Carlson.
Joe Character, a business strategy book from 1998 that exotifies both the Chinese origins AND Native Americans, and a 1986 Ron Howard film about Japanese businessmen in Pennsylvania, featuring Engrish that will make your skeleton ache. Though the movement was relatively small, with 30,000 workers at 3,000 factories at its peak, it got outsized attention because English-speaking foreigners were involved, many of whom were central to forming the International Committee for the Promotion of Industrial Chinese Cooperatives (ICCIC). And they named every new thing Gung Ho. So how did it go from describing a leftist co-op to an overzealous try-hard?
When I designed a field jacket to replace the bulky and orthodox pack they even called it the Gung Ho jacket.
He concluded that the term is an "Americanism that is derived from the Chinese, but its several accepted American meanings have no resemblance whatsoever to the recognized meaning in the original language" and that its "various linguistic uses, as they have developed in the United States, have been peculiar to American speech." ), He went on: “My motto caught on and they began to call themselves the Gung Ho Battalion. The country was largely economically reliant on Japan. These were some of the first World War II victories for the U.S. against Japan, so the U.S. made sure to get the story in front of the public. In From Makin to Bougainville: Marine Raiders in the Pacific War, Maj. Jon. Carlson's Raiders gained acclaim and recognition for the action they saw in the Gilbert and Lower Solomon Islands in mid-1942. Then he wrote two books about China (one titled Twin Stars of China: A Behind-the-Scenes Story of China's Valiant Struggle for Existence by a U.S. Marine who Lived & Moved with the People). ", According to Anne-Marie Brady, that collaboration was how gung-ho entered the lexicon of many English speakers. Today, we would Romanize it to gōng hé, but in the 1930s, the same sounds turned into kung ho, or gung-ho. LMPC/Getty Images With time and enthusiasm (maybe too much enthusiasm) gung-ho has come to mean whatever people want it to mean.
He’s really gung ho about his new job. with 30,000 workers at 3,000 factories at its peak, professor at the University of Canterbury, an extensive article about gung-ho in 1967, Bail For Kyle Rittenhouse, Accused Kenosha Shooter, Set At $2 Million, Federal Judge Blocks Trump Rule Designed to Impede Immigrants Seeking Green Cards, Slovakia’s Weekend Project: Test The Whole Country For Coronavirus, In Puerto Rico, Young Voters Are Trying To Shake Up Traditional Party Politics, Meet The Candidates Running For Putnam County Superintendent, Florida Government Officials Are Resuming In-Person Meetings, How WUFT Plans To Cover The 2020 General Election, Group Of UF Students And Teachers Join To Protest In-Person Classes In The Spring, The Point, Nov. 2, 2020: Florida Rejected One Voter’s Mailed Ballots During 10 Different Elections, Meet The Elderly Republican Voter Whose Ballots Florida Rejected More Than Anyone’s, High Springs Voters To Decide Commission Races, Await New City Manager, The Lede: We the People Love Halloween (Season II – Episode X), Ocala Remembers Police Chief Greg Graham At His Memorial, New Zealand Appoints First Indigenous Female Foreign Minister.
The gung-ho slogan adopted by some Marines became so well-known that it was turned into a 1943 movie. With time and enthusiasm (maybe too much enthusiasm) gung-ho has come to mean whatever people want it to mean. "[4], Later, Carlson used gung ho as a motto during his (unconventional) command of the enthusiastic 2nd Marine Raider Battalion, leading to other marines adopting the term to mean overly enthusiastic. In 1937, Japan invaded and kicked off the second Sino-Japanese War.
It was quite easy for foreigners to engage with activities in China and be part of a solution for addressing a serious problem like refugees.". You’re drawing up plans on napkins, you can see the city lined with posters for your astrology-based wine club or whatever, you’re figuring out what color Tesla you’re gonna get with those sweet, sweet Pinot-Scorpio returns. She says that the country back then "was very different from China today. By many accounts, China during that era was not doing super well. “As a result, the Gung Ho Battalion and its personnel soon were referred to as the ‘gung ho bastards.’ ” Moe cites a 1952 glossary of Marine slang with the following definition: “GUNG HO. Civil war was breaking out. According to Christopher Blaker, a historian and editor with the U.S. Marine Corps History Division, "Their long combat knives were called 'Gung Ho' knives, their hunting jackets were christened 'Gung Ho' jackets, and meetings in the field became 'Gung Ho' meetings. Or perhaps you’re a world leader expressing how totally great your international trade talks are about to go.
Over eight years, an estimated 17 million civilians died, and 95 million more people became refugees. The linguist Albert Moe, who wrote an extensive article about gung-ho in 1967, writes, “As early as the latter part of 1942, Marines other than those in the Second Raider Battalion used gung-ho as a term of disparagement to describe anyone whose conduct or behavior was obnoxious or offensive.” Apparently, the Marine Raiders were known for being rowdy and ready to prove how “rough and tough” they were. (It doesn’t, and according to Brady, the cooperatives would have only been affiliated with the Communists in local pockets.).
From there, it spread throughout the U.S. Marine Corps hence the association between the two, where it was used as an expression of spirit and into American society as a whole when the phrase became the title of a 1943 war film, Gung Ho!, about the 2nd Raider Battalion's raid on Makin Island in 1942. Politicians have spent decades fighting over statehood but many young voters think it's time to focus on rebuilding a decimated island instead.
The original Chinese is 工業合作社, which means “industrial cooperative” —工業, (gōng yè) meaning “industry”, and 合作社, (hé zuò shè) meaning “cooperative.” We’re talking organizations democratically run by workers, producing industrial goods like blankets and military uniforms. [5], List of United States Marine Corps acronyms and expressions, "Gung Ho! Maybe you're a college freshman, emailing all of your professors before the semester starts to tell them how absolutely thrilled you are to be in their class. (It doesn't, and according to Brady, the cooperatives would have only been affiliated with the Communists in local pockets.). “You’re being a little gung-ho about this.”. But it didn't always. Or perhaps you're a world leader expressing how totally great your international trade talks are about to go.
1. He was impressed by their mobility and flexibility, as well as the concern for their fellow soldiers’ welfare.
In 1939, he resigned from the Marine Corps because he was being censured for his vocal pro-China views.
1. aggressive esprit de corps; 2. sometimes sardonically employed to characterize cocky indiscipline or contempt toward orthodox procedures and regulations.”.
In 1937, Carlson arrived in Shanghai to serve his third tour in China. ", The Red Army influenced now-Lt. Col. Carlson's leadership in a deeply idealistic way; every man would have input into the plans and officers had no distinct privileges until everyone felt they were earned.
Carlson explained in a 1943 interview: "I was trying to build up the same sort of working spirit I had seen in China where all the soldiers dedicated themselves to one idea and worked together to put that idea over. 工業合作社 was abbreviated, as many long Chinese proper nouns are, to the first character of each part, 工合.
And so, the phrase leaked its way into the English language. One such foreigner was a fellow named Evans Fordyce Carlson.
Joe Character, a business strategy book from 1998 that exotifies both the Chinese origins AND Native Americans, and a 1986 Ron Howard film about Japanese businessmen in Pennsylvania, featuring Engrish that will make your skeleton ache. Though the movement was relatively small, with 30,000 workers at 3,000 factories at its peak, it got outsized attention because English-speaking foreigners were involved, many of whom were central to forming the International Committee for the Promotion of Industrial Chinese Cooperatives (ICCIC). And they named every new thing Gung Ho. So how did it go from describing a leftist co-op to an overzealous try-hard?
When I designed a field jacket to replace the bulky and orthodox pack they even called it the Gung Ho jacket.
He concluded that the term is an "Americanism that is derived from the Chinese, but its several accepted American meanings have no resemblance whatsoever to the recognized meaning in the original language" and that its "various linguistic uses, as they have developed in the United States, have been peculiar to American speech." ), He went on: “My motto caught on and they began to call themselves the Gung Ho Battalion. The country was largely economically reliant on Japan. These were some of the first World War II victories for the U.S. against Japan, so the U.S. made sure to get the story in front of the public. In From Makin to Bougainville: Marine Raiders in the Pacific War, Maj. Jon. Carlson's Raiders gained acclaim and recognition for the action they saw in the Gilbert and Lower Solomon Islands in mid-1942. Then he wrote two books about China (one titled Twin Stars of China: A Behind-the-Scenes Story of China's Valiant Struggle for Existence by a U.S. Marine who Lived & Moved with the People). ", According to Anne-Marie Brady, that collaboration was how gung-ho entered the lexicon of many English speakers. Today, we would Romanize it to gōng hé, but in the 1930s, the same sounds turned into kung ho, or gung-ho. LMPC/Getty Images With time and enthusiasm (maybe too much enthusiasm) gung-ho has come to mean whatever people want it to mean.
He’s really gung ho about his new job. with 30,000 workers at 3,000 factories at its peak, professor at the University of Canterbury, an extensive article about gung-ho in 1967, Bail For Kyle Rittenhouse, Accused Kenosha Shooter, Set At $2 Million, Federal Judge Blocks Trump Rule Designed to Impede Immigrants Seeking Green Cards, Slovakia’s Weekend Project: Test The Whole Country For Coronavirus, In Puerto Rico, Young Voters Are Trying To Shake Up Traditional Party Politics, Meet The Candidates Running For Putnam County Superintendent, Florida Government Officials Are Resuming In-Person Meetings, How WUFT Plans To Cover The 2020 General Election, Group Of UF Students And Teachers Join To Protest In-Person Classes In The Spring, The Point, Nov. 2, 2020: Florida Rejected One Voter’s Mailed Ballots During 10 Different Elections, Meet The Elderly Republican Voter Whose Ballots Florida Rejected More Than Anyone’s, High Springs Voters To Decide Commission Races, Await New City Manager, The Lede: We the People Love Halloween (Season II – Episode X), Ocala Remembers Police Chief Greg Graham At His Memorial, New Zealand Appoints First Indigenous Female Foreign Minister.
The gung-ho slogan adopted by some Marines became so well-known that it was turned into a 1943 movie. With time and enthusiasm (maybe too much enthusiasm) gung-ho has come to mean whatever people want it to mean. "[4], Later, Carlson used gung ho as a motto during his (unconventional) command of the enthusiastic 2nd Marine Raider Battalion, leading to other marines adopting the term to mean overly enthusiastic. In 1937, Japan invaded and kicked off the second Sino-Japanese War.
It was quite easy for foreigners to engage with activities in China and be part of a solution for addressing a serious problem like refugees.". You’re drawing up plans on napkins, you can see the city lined with posters for your astrology-based wine club or whatever, you’re figuring out what color Tesla you’re gonna get with those sweet, sweet Pinot-Scorpio returns. She says that the country back then "was very different from China today. By many accounts, China during that era was not doing super well. “As a result, the Gung Ho Battalion and its personnel soon were referred to as the ‘gung ho bastards.’ ” Moe cites a 1952 glossary of Marine slang with the following definition: “GUNG HO. Civil war was breaking out. According to Christopher Blaker, a historian and editor with the U.S. Marine Corps History Division, "Their long combat knives were called 'Gung Ho' knives, their hunting jackets were christened 'Gung Ho' jackets, and meetings in the field became 'Gung Ho' meetings. Or perhaps you’re a world leader expressing how totally great your international trade talks are about to go.
Over eight years, an estimated 17 million civilians died, and 95 million more people became refugees. The linguist Albert Moe, who wrote an extensive article about gung-ho in 1967, writes, “As early as the latter part of 1942, Marines other than those in the Second Raider Battalion used gung-ho as a term of disparagement to describe anyone whose conduct or behavior was obnoxious or offensive.” Apparently, the Marine Raiders were known for being rowdy and ready to prove how “rough and tough” they were. (It doesn’t, and according to Brady, the cooperatives would have only been affiliated with the Communists in local pockets.).
From there, it spread throughout the U.S. Marine Corps hence the association between the two, where it was used as an expression of spirit and into American society as a whole when the phrase became the title of a 1943 war film, Gung Ho!, about the 2nd Raider Battalion's raid on Makin Island in 1942. Politicians have spent decades fighting over statehood but many young voters think it's time to focus on rebuilding a decimated island instead.
The original Chinese is 工業合作社, which means “industrial cooperative” —工業, (gōng yè) meaning “industry”, and 合作社, (hé zuò shè) meaning “cooperative.” We’re talking organizations democratically run by workers, producing industrial goods like blankets and military uniforms. [5], List of United States Marine Corps acronyms and expressions, "Gung Ho! Maybe you're a college freshman, emailing all of your professors before the semester starts to tell them how absolutely thrilled you are to be in their class. (It doesn't, and according to Brady, the cooperatives would have only been affiliated with the Communists in local pockets.). “You’re being a little gung-ho about this.”. But it didn't always. Or perhaps you're a world leader expressing how totally great your international trade talks are about to go.
1. He was impressed by their mobility and flexibility, as well as the concern for their fellow soldiers’ welfare.
In 1939, he resigned from the Marine Corps because he was being censured for his vocal pro-China views.
1. aggressive esprit de corps; 2. sometimes sardonically employed to characterize cocky indiscipline or contempt toward orthodox procedures and regulations.”.
In 1937, Carlson arrived in Shanghai to serve his third tour in China. ", The Red Army influenced now-Lt. Col. Carlson's leadership in a deeply idealistic way; every man would have input into the plans and officers had no distinct privileges until everyone felt they were earned.
Carlson explained in a 1943 interview: "I was trying to build up the same sort of working spirit I had seen in China where all the soldiers dedicated themselves to one idea and worked together to put that idea over. 工業合作社 was abbreviated, as many long Chinese proper nouns are, to the first character of each part, 工合.
And so, the phrase leaked its way into the English language. One such foreigner was a fellow named Evans Fordyce Carlson.
Joe Character, a business strategy book from 1998 that exotifies both the Chinese origins AND Native Americans, and a 1986 Ron Howard film about Japanese businessmen in Pennsylvania, featuring Engrish that will make your skeleton ache. Though the movement was relatively small, with 30,000 workers at 3,000 factories at its peak, it got outsized attention because English-speaking foreigners were involved, many of whom were central to forming the International Committee for the Promotion of Industrial Chinese Cooperatives (ICCIC). And they named every new thing Gung Ho. So how did it go from describing a leftist co-op to an overzealous try-hard?
When I designed a field jacket to replace the bulky and orthodox pack they even called it the Gung Ho jacket.
He concluded that the term is an "Americanism that is derived from the Chinese, but its several accepted American meanings have no resemblance whatsoever to the recognized meaning in the original language" and that its "various linguistic uses, as they have developed in the United States, have been peculiar to American speech." ), He went on: “My motto caught on and they began to call themselves the Gung Ho Battalion. The country was largely economically reliant on Japan. These were some of the first World War II victories for the U.S. against Japan, so the U.S. made sure to get the story in front of the public. In From Makin to Bougainville: Marine Raiders in the Pacific War, Maj. Jon. Carlson's Raiders gained acclaim and recognition for the action they saw in the Gilbert and Lower Solomon Islands in mid-1942. Then he wrote two books about China (one titled Twin Stars of China: A Behind-the-Scenes Story of China's Valiant Struggle for Existence by a U.S. Marine who Lived & Moved with the People). ", According to Anne-Marie Brady, that collaboration was how gung-ho entered the lexicon of many English speakers. Today, we would Romanize it to gōng hé, but in the 1930s, the same sounds turned into kung ho, or gung-ho. LMPC/Getty Images With time and enthusiasm (maybe too much enthusiasm) gung-ho has come to mean whatever people want it to mean.
He’s really gung ho about his new job. with 30,000 workers at 3,000 factories at its peak, professor at the University of Canterbury, an extensive article about gung-ho in 1967, Bail For Kyle Rittenhouse, Accused Kenosha Shooter, Set At $2 Million, Federal Judge Blocks Trump Rule Designed to Impede Immigrants Seeking Green Cards, Slovakia’s Weekend Project: Test The Whole Country For Coronavirus, In Puerto Rico, Young Voters Are Trying To Shake Up Traditional Party Politics, Meet The Candidates Running For Putnam County Superintendent, Florida Government Officials Are Resuming In-Person Meetings, How WUFT Plans To Cover The 2020 General Election, Group Of UF Students And Teachers Join To Protest In-Person Classes In The Spring, The Point, Nov. 2, 2020: Florida Rejected One Voter’s Mailed Ballots During 10 Different Elections, Meet The Elderly Republican Voter Whose Ballots Florida Rejected More Than Anyone’s, High Springs Voters To Decide Commission Races, Await New City Manager, The Lede: We the People Love Halloween (Season II – Episode X), Ocala Remembers Police Chief Greg Graham At His Memorial, New Zealand Appoints First Indigenous Female Foreign Minister.
The gung-ho slogan adopted by some Marines became so well-known that it was turned into a 1943 movie. With time and enthusiasm (maybe too much enthusiasm) gung-ho has come to mean whatever people want it to mean. "[4], Later, Carlson used gung ho as a motto during his (unconventional) command of the enthusiastic 2nd Marine Raider Battalion, leading to other marines adopting the term to mean overly enthusiastic. In 1937, Japan invaded and kicked off the second Sino-Japanese War.
It was quite easy for foreigners to engage with activities in China and be part of a solution for addressing a serious problem like refugees.". You’re drawing up plans on napkins, you can see the city lined with posters for your astrology-based wine club or whatever, you’re figuring out what color Tesla you’re gonna get with those sweet, sweet Pinot-Scorpio returns. She says that the country back then "was very different from China today. By many accounts, China during that era was not doing super well. “As a result, the Gung Ho Battalion and its personnel soon were referred to as the ‘gung ho bastards.’ ” Moe cites a 1952 glossary of Marine slang with the following definition: “GUNG HO. Civil war was breaking out. According to Christopher Blaker, a historian and editor with the U.S. Marine Corps History Division, "Their long combat knives were called 'Gung Ho' knives, their hunting jackets were christened 'Gung Ho' jackets, and meetings in the field became 'Gung Ho' meetings. Or perhaps you’re a world leader expressing how totally great your international trade talks are about to go.
Over eight years, an estimated 17 million civilians died, and 95 million more people became refugees. The linguist Albert Moe, who wrote an extensive article about gung-ho in 1967, writes, “As early as the latter part of 1942, Marines other than those in the Second Raider Battalion used gung-ho as a term of disparagement to describe anyone whose conduct or behavior was obnoxious or offensive.” Apparently, the Marine Raiders were known for being rowdy and ready to prove how “rough and tough” they were. (It doesn’t, and according to Brady, the cooperatives would have only been affiliated with the Communists in local pockets.).
From there, it spread throughout the U.S. Marine Corps hence the association between the two, where it was used as an expression of spirit and into American society as a whole when the phrase became the title of a 1943 war film, Gung Ho!, about the 2nd Raider Battalion's raid on Makin Island in 1942. Politicians have spent decades fighting over statehood but many young voters think it's time to focus on rebuilding a decimated island instead.
The original Chinese is 工業合作社, which means “industrial cooperative” —工業, (gōng yè) meaning “industry”, and 合作社, (hé zuò shè) meaning “cooperative.” We’re talking organizations democratically run by workers, producing industrial goods like blankets and military uniforms. [5], List of United States Marine Corps acronyms and expressions, "Gung Ho! Maybe you're a college freshman, emailing all of your professors before the semester starts to tell them how absolutely thrilled you are to be in their class. (It doesn't, and according to Brady, the cooperatives would have only been affiliated with the Communists in local pockets.). “You’re being a little gung-ho about this.”. But it didn't always. Or perhaps you're a world leader expressing how totally great your international trade talks are about to go.
1. He was impressed by their mobility and flexibility, as well as the concern for their fellow soldiers’ welfare.
It means Work Together — Work in Harmony. She says that the country back then “was very different from China today. The term's current use stems from the way Carlson interpreted and popularized it. ", He's not exaggerating about every new thing. I told the boys about it again and again.
So next time you hear it in the wild, remember that it was originally Chinese jargon that English speakers wanted to be meaningful so hard that they just ... made it happen. But it didn’t always.
In 1939, he resigned from the Marine Corps because he was being censured for his vocal pro-China views.
1. aggressive esprit de corps; 2. sometimes sardonically employed to characterize cocky indiscipline or contempt toward orthodox procedures and regulations.”.
In 1937, Carlson arrived in Shanghai to serve his third tour in China. ", The Red Army influenced now-Lt. Col. Carlson's leadership in a deeply idealistic way; every man would have input into the plans and officers had no distinct privileges until everyone felt they were earned.
Carlson explained in a 1943 interview: "I was trying to build up the same sort of working spirit I had seen in China where all the soldiers dedicated themselves to one idea and worked together to put that idea over. 工業合作社 was abbreviated, as many long Chinese proper nouns are, to the first character of each part, 工合.
And so, the phrase leaked its way into the English language. One such foreigner was a fellow named Evans Fordyce Carlson.
Joe Character, a business strategy book from 1998 that exotifies both the Chinese origins AND Native Americans, and a 1986 Ron Howard film about Japanese businessmen in Pennsylvania, featuring Engrish that will make your skeleton ache. Though the movement was relatively small, with 30,000 workers at 3,000 factories at its peak, it got outsized attention because English-speaking foreigners were involved, many of whom were central to forming the International Committee for the Promotion of Industrial Chinese Cooperatives (ICCIC). And they named every new thing Gung Ho. So how did it go from describing a leftist co-op to an overzealous try-hard?
When I designed a field jacket to replace the bulky and orthodox pack they even called it the Gung Ho jacket.
He concluded that the term is an "Americanism that is derived from the Chinese, but its several accepted American meanings have no resemblance whatsoever to the recognized meaning in the original language" and that its "various linguistic uses, as they have developed in the United States, have been peculiar to American speech." ), He went on: “My motto caught on and they began to call themselves the Gung Ho Battalion. The country was largely economically reliant on Japan. These were some of the first World War II victories for the U.S. against Japan, so the U.S. made sure to get the story in front of the public. In From Makin to Bougainville: Marine Raiders in the Pacific War, Maj. Jon. Carlson's Raiders gained acclaim and recognition for the action they saw in the Gilbert and Lower Solomon Islands in mid-1942. Then he wrote two books about China (one titled Twin Stars of China: A Behind-the-Scenes Story of China's Valiant Struggle for Existence by a U.S. Marine who Lived & Moved with the People). ", According to Anne-Marie Brady, that collaboration was how gung-ho entered the lexicon of many English speakers. Today, we would Romanize it to gōng hé, but in the 1930s, the same sounds turned into kung ho, or gung-ho. LMPC/Getty Images With time and enthusiasm (maybe too much enthusiasm) gung-ho has come to mean whatever people want it to mean.
He’s really gung ho about his new job. with 30,000 workers at 3,000 factories at its peak, professor at the University of Canterbury, an extensive article about gung-ho in 1967, Bail For Kyle Rittenhouse, Accused Kenosha Shooter, Set At $2 Million, Federal Judge Blocks Trump Rule Designed to Impede Immigrants Seeking Green Cards, Slovakia’s Weekend Project: Test The Whole Country For Coronavirus, In Puerto Rico, Young Voters Are Trying To Shake Up Traditional Party Politics, Meet The Candidates Running For Putnam County Superintendent, Florida Government Officials Are Resuming In-Person Meetings, How WUFT Plans To Cover The 2020 General Election, Group Of UF Students And Teachers Join To Protest In-Person Classes In The Spring, The Point, Nov. 2, 2020: Florida Rejected One Voter’s Mailed Ballots During 10 Different Elections, Meet The Elderly Republican Voter Whose Ballots Florida Rejected More Than Anyone’s, High Springs Voters To Decide Commission Races, Await New City Manager, The Lede: We the People Love Halloween (Season II – Episode X), Ocala Remembers Police Chief Greg Graham At His Memorial, New Zealand Appoints First Indigenous Female Foreign Minister.
The gung-ho slogan adopted by some Marines became so well-known that it was turned into a 1943 movie. With time and enthusiasm (maybe too much enthusiasm) gung-ho has come to mean whatever people want it to mean. "[4], Later, Carlson used gung ho as a motto during his (unconventional) command of the enthusiastic 2nd Marine Raider Battalion, leading to other marines adopting the term to mean overly enthusiastic. In 1937, Japan invaded and kicked off the second Sino-Japanese War.
It was quite easy for foreigners to engage with activities in China and be part of a solution for addressing a serious problem like refugees.". You’re drawing up plans on napkins, you can see the city lined with posters for your astrology-based wine club or whatever, you’re figuring out what color Tesla you’re gonna get with those sweet, sweet Pinot-Scorpio returns. She says that the country back then "was very different from China today. By many accounts, China during that era was not doing super well. “As a result, the Gung Ho Battalion and its personnel soon were referred to as the ‘gung ho bastards.’ ” Moe cites a 1952 glossary of Marine slang with the following definition: “GUNG HO. Civil war was breaking out. According to Christopher Blaker, a historian and editor with the U.S. Marine Corps History Division, "Their long combat knives were called 'Gung Ho' knives, their hunting jackets were christened 'Gung Ho' jackets, and meetings in the field became 'Gung Ho' meetings. Or perhaps you’re a world leader expressing how totally great your international trade talks are about to go.
Over eight years, an estimated 17 million civilians died, and 95 million more people became refugees. The linguist Albert Moe, who wrote an extensive article about gung-ho in 1967, writes, “As early as the latter part of 1942, Marines other than those in the Second Raider Battalion used gung-ho as a term of disparagement to describe anyone whose conduct or behavior was obnoxious or offensive.” Apparently, the Marine Raiders were known for being rowdy and ready to prove how “rough and tough” they were. (It doesn’t, and according to Brady, the cooperatives would have only been affiliated with the Communists in local pockets.).
From there, it spread throughout the U.S. Marine Corps hence the association between the two, where it was used as an expression of spirit and into American society as a whole when the phrase became the title of a 1943 war film, Gung Ho!, about the 2nd Raider Battalion's raid on Makin Island in 1942. Politicians have spent decades fighting over statehood but many young voters think it's time to focus on rebuilding a decimated island instead.
The original Chinese is 工業合作社, which means “industrial cooperative” —工業, (gōng yè) meaning “industry”, and 合作社, (hé zuò shè) meaning “cooperative.” We’re talking organizations democratically run by workers, producing industrial goods like blankets and military uniforms. [5], List of United States Marine Corps acronyms and expressions, "Gung Ho! Maybe you're a college freshman, emailing all of your professors before the semester starts to tell them how absolutely thrilled you are to be in their class. (It doesn't, and according to Brady, the cooperatives would have only been affiliated with the Communists in local pockets.). “You’re being a little gung-ho about this.”. But it didn't always. Or perhaps you're a world leader expressing how totally great your international trade talks are about to go.
1. He was impressed by their mobility and flexibility, as well as the concern for their fellow soldiers’ welfare.
And so, the phrase leaked its way into the English language. : 'to work together'), acronym for Chinese Industrial Cooperatives (Chinese: 工業合作社; pinyin: Gōngyè Hézuòshè).
