Sunday, August 13, 2023
T shirt says
For a place where only a small percentage of people speak English, we sure see a lot of it on walls and t-shirts. Often the English is kind of off or doesn't quite fit. Sometimes it makes no sense at all. We were talking about this with our teacher and he told us about the father of one of his friends: older, conservative, no English and maybe a little curmudgeonly. Apparently, the guy wears a Too hot to handle t-shirt while he grills and drinks beer on the weekends. The day we talked about too hot to handle dad, Carol and I went out for a walk. We found ourselves behind a guy wearing an English-language shirt that said Less Monday More Summer. We agreed with the sentiment but noted that the message was not quite how we would say it in English. The next English-message shirt we saw had just three words in all caps: BURN, LIFE, VIBE. We scratched out heads. It is puzzling how these shirts get printed and we can't help but wonder how it is that people end up wearing them.
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