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justme · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 1944 Location: Istanbul

Okay, so I haven't recently been in the newspaper or on the telly or anything, but apparently I'm famous.

Today one of my students was wearing a shirt that says 'Justme' !! Very Happy

'Justme' was written in hot pink sparkles, so I gather she must have gotten through the unofficial fan club.

It's my favorite weird English I've seen here. What's yours?

yaramaz · Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:23 am Post subject:

I was delighted to see a 10 year old headscarf girl (with headscarf ma) in Kayseri a few years ago, sporting a sparkly t shirt which proclaimed, 'I just got laid!'.

Baba Alex · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 2411

yaramaz · Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:25 am Post subject:

Btw, I joined your fan club but only on the premise that there is an open bar at your fanclub meetings.

justme · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 1944 Location: Istanbul

Actually, I'm not a joiner. But if there's an open bar, I'll come to every meeting too.

I once tried to explain to a student why she shouldn't wear a shirt that says 'hussy,' but she was really dumb and got confused in that petulant way so I gave up and decided it was probably appropriate.

Same for the one with a shirt that said 'Gold Diggah.'

tekirdag · Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 505

Was walking through Şişli and heard some teenage girls revelling in the English they had learned somewhere. They were giggling hysterically and asking each other, "Excuse me but do you have a sheeeeet?!"

Profanity needs good pron.

yaramaz · Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 1:52 pm Post subject:

At least they were using articles for once.

justme · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 1944 Location: Istanbul

Mmmmmm, articles......

*dribble*

Baba Alex · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 2411

Baba Alex · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 2411

justme · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 1944 Location: Istanbul

I like 'the,' but only when it's followed by a vowel. 'An' is a close second. I don't really care for 'a' very much.

Baba Alex · Joined: 17 Aug 2004 Posts: 2411

whynotme · Joined: 07 Nov 2004 Posts: 728 Location: istanbul

i saw a girl wearing a red shirt and '' i am a virgin'' written on top

and at the bottom '' it is an old shirt''.

justme · Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 1944 Location: Istanbul

Another one in today's class:

'Low Woman'. Bad and archaic at the same time.

Do you think it's native speakers coming up with things to have a laugh at the expense of foreigners? Or foreigners who think English is cool but have no idea what it says?

To think that these shirts get by the designers, the makers, the wholesalers, the pazarcıs, the girls' families, the girls themselves...

saloma · Joined: 07 Jul 2005 Posts: 211

I'm in Shanghai at the moment. Today a girl was walking down the street in a teeny sleeveless see-through shirt that had "underneath appropriate" splashed across the front. And it was.

In Taiwan, my student had the cutest 5 year old boy. He often wore a shirt with 3 bunnies playing on swings. In the corner was written, "small boy kept for sexual perversion".

Who makes this stuff up? How can I get this job?