Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Clothing is Better with English Slogans!
If clothing has print it will likely be in English. Even if the shirt or hat is promoting Kazakhstan or a local organization. We also found this to be true in Russia in which their local teams were promoted on shirt with the Latin alphabet rather than their own Cyrillic. It might have something to do with English being the global language. This may be true is most countries, but I do not have first hand experience in most countries. Either way, the translation or the context can be amusing. I often see men wearing shirts and jackets with slogans or brand names like "master of sports" or "man of fashion." Yesterday, there was a 9 or 10 year-old boy with a baseball hat with "SEXY" written is large letters across the front.
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that's awesome. translations offer so much fodder for humor. so mick needs a shirt that says "Star of the Rocks!"
ReplyDeleteOn another translation note, he and I went to a playground that had music over the loudspeakers. It was usual stuff with thumping base. The lyrics were all English, but a couple of the songs were very vulgar i.e. F bombs and body references. It was strange since the location was so family-friendly. Maybe the parents didn't know what was being said.
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