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You know how sometimes clothing has nonsense and even offensive sayings on it in English that the wearers clearly are unaware of the meaning? Well, today I saw a young man dressed in an otherwise nice looking blue and white striped dress shirt. The only problem was on the back of the shirt it said "Cannibal Village." It made me question his choice of companions, a young woman with meaty hips...
I love the shirts with slogans on! Gives me a right giggle. I've often wanted to ask the ladies sporting them if they realise what they have emblazoned all across their chests.
This topic as gone to my head - All i can do now when im out and about is look at people wearing T-Shirts with writing on
Its very rare you see a T-Shirt or any clothing here with Arabic writing on so everyone wears clothing with English written on it and most of them dont have a clue what it says
Its for that very reason I will not buy anything written in a language that I do not understand, can you imagine walking around wearing something completely inappropriate and everyone else knowing what it says?
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It reminds me of the story about the guy on holiday in Hong Kong and he has some of those 'Karate' type symbols tattooed on his arm. On his return he notices that he gets quite a few strange looks from Chinese people, so one day he goes to the library and gets a book on Chinese symbols and is not very happy when he translates it to read: Spoiler
:lol::lol: I'm always afraid of that, having seen some shirts in other countries. My daughter has a Chinese symbol tattooed on her. Lord knows what it says.
"A man who has had a bull by the tail once has learned 60 or 70 times as much as a man who hasn't."
Mark Twain
I have often fancied getting a necklace withmy name written in arabic (not on a cartouche) but knowing my luck it wouldnt be my name but some one elses!
I was a bit miffed about a bracelet I was reckoning to have my name on, Joanne did not fit so I decided on JoJo-it looked really nice...snake-bladder-snake-bladder
Lisak wrote:Its for that very reason I will not buy anything written in a language that I do not understand, can you imagine walking around wearing something completely inappropriate and everyone else knowing what it says?
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I totally agree with you Lisak.
I tend to see a lot of strange 'translations' on clothing that comes in to the UK from Japan. Some is funny and some doesn't make any sense at all but some can be somewhat dodgy.
I was in a Luxor 'local womens' shop last week that also sold some childrens clothing and I was asked to read some of the 'English' logo's for them. They were quite shocked when I told them one of the childrens tshirts had writing on it about free love and homosexuality on it, although it did not use that word. All the words kind of ran into one another and bits were blocked by patches of materiel over the print. That particular tshirt was next seen mopping the floor having already been used to clean the windows. [/face]
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