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Is this a local thing? It's not translating here. |
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Let me translate [2 fries]. *Ahem* |
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A wife-beater is a singlet or tanktop. The habitual wearers of such garments are identifiable by having tanned arms but lily-white torsos (aka "farmer-tans"). The idea here is to invert the effect by having the shirt created of a material which reflects visible light but allows ultra-violet light through - hence tanning the wearer's torso. |
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The "k is silent" in the Summary is a humourous reference to the deliberate mis-parsing of the word "tanktop" to emphasize the "tan" component of the idea - i.e. "tan ktop" |
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Next week's lesson in Canadian/Australian translation class will examine why "lucked out" means the opposite thing in each country. |
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Thank you. I'm off to get me some beaver-tail to eat
out, I think. |
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Perhaps the cloth should incorporate fibres from walnut husks. |
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Oh come on, everyone knows it's |
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Brrrooow aaawwww aaww aaaaww aaaa ooow aawaawaawaaaaw aaaawaaa rrrrroow aaaaaw aaaaaa brrrrrowaaa waaaaa waawaawaaaa boowhaaaaaa oooowwaaaaa |
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Never heard of a spell-checker? |
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wish I could speak whale... |
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Maybe the term "wife-beater" was what caused confusion. I could imagine the moniker being less useful in circumstances where |
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1: every male habitually wears such a garment, regardless of wife beating habits. |
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2: every male habitually beats his wife, such that the term "wife beater" becomes nonselective. |
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4. The garment in question is normally worn by heterosexual women or gay men
5. Some different garment is normally worn by wife-beaters and so the description of this as a "wife-beater" would cause confusion.
6. This garment is worn by wife-beaters but is also worn just as much by another, very different and distinctive group, such as
well-educated, rich philathropists who dabble in poetry-writing (Note that this is a special case of exception 1). |
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The garment in question (a lightweight white cotton tank
top sized for men) is usually marketed as, and considered
to be by the majority of Western nations, an
undergarment, someting worn under button-up
sleeved work shirts or dress shirts. However, it is
considered by a select portion of the American male
populace, known as 'rednecks' or 'hilbillies', and a select
portion of the British male populace known as
'Yorkshiremen', to be an acceptable outer garment; these
demographics being commonly, if somewhat innacurately,
associated with spousal abuse, the garment has become
known as the 'wife-beater', QED, ipso quid prono, alto sax. |
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Aren't those the eldritch lobster creatures from Yuggoth? |
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No, it's my phonetic-spelling version of the Hawaiian
Pidgin* word meaning 'do you understand?' (lit. 'you okay?')
It's a callback joke to an anno in [Inyuki]'s 'Logish' post. |
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* which, AFAIK, has no written form. |
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sorry, but its baked. (see link) I also think I hear
speed (?) made similar tops. I do wish they were
more prevalent/easier to buy though. |
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I had noticed the term, "wife-beater', coming
gradually into usage in Australia and wondered
whether it meant a garment or its wearer. |
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It's what is referred to as a Jackie Howe Singlet.
Jackie Howe was a famous shearer, during the late
1880s, in Queensland, Australia. <link> |
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I find the usage of wife beater redundant with tank top as
well as confusing. |
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I don't know how widespread this is, even within the uk, but tanktops of T-shirt material are actually associated with gay men to the extent that they're called "gay tops". |
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Similar styled garments which have no such connotations are vests (an undergarment), string vests (see: Rab C. Nesbitt) and knitted tanktops (old people). |
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The term 'wife-beater' seems to be going out of style in
the NE US, although the garment itself remains as popular
as ever. |
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Sorry about the title ambiguity. [bob]s' link makes this baked, and it will expire in,
four
three
two... |
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Not widely kniwj to exist but suggest a title change to anti
farmer tan ktop. |
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Deal.
<spits in palm, holds out hand> |
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No..it'll just go from "why are you talking about wife-beaters?" to "what have you got against farmers?" |
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>gay men to the extent that they're called "gay tops". |
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News to me, as a UK bod. But noticed in Bangkok, when I wore one they try flogging me kiddie porn dvd's not just regular porno dvd's, so I went back to wearing t-shirts again. |
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[+] (although I think the original *farmer's tan* was from a regular t-shirt with sleeves) I'm going to investigate that...
...be back in a couple of months. |
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Here it's the "sock tan", as most tradesmen and
outdoorsy types wear shorts because of the heat. |
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That is changing, as OHS rules now require long
trousers, long-sleeved shirts and hats, all rated to SPF
50+ or more, to forestall workers' compensation
claims for sun cancer. |
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[2 Fries] Can you produce any evidence to support your
outrageous claim that farmers are gay and beat their
wives? |
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If the tank-top fits... you mustn't acquit. |
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Now how do we identify wife-beaters? |
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Their wives have black eyes? |
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Whose wives do they beat? |
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Oddly enough I actually have a shirt like that: mesh torso and solid long-sleeves. |
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