Last night, I accidentally left my thong in someone else’s hotel room.
Because I suspect there might be ambiguity in the minds of some my non-Australian readers, this is what I forgot:
Even with full knowledge of the Australian definition, it’s sometimes difficult for me to talk about my thongs by name. I’ve been told that I can also call them "pluggers." I’m not sure that this is really all that much better.
Thongs be the correct name!
Uh… “pluggers”? Not to this Australian. I’d imagine that you were talking about some weird… something. Something to do with plugs.
Ah. The Australian regionalism map says it’s a Queensland thing: http://web.macquariedictionary.com.au/wordmap/result_word.htm?sessionname=mapFFA49453105
We English call them flip-flops, for obvious reasons. “Thong,” sounds better.
Havaianas! :-)
It’s called “sandália” (sandal, this is how we call it here in Brazil). “Sandálias Havaianas”.
And it’s good to see that a product of Brazil is famous! :-D
Honestly I thought you really meant a thong (which in America is a skimpy undergarment in place of underwear usually). It is unheard of (most of the time) for men to wear thongs…
So naturally when I read that you left your thong in a room… I was a little confused.
We call them “Flip-flops” here. I think it’s a really silly name. We distinguish them from sandals (which have straps).
We down here in the enlightened land of NZ :P call them “Jandals”.
a hint of how things could go horribly wrong in translation- footwear being confused for skimpy undergarments by future civilization archaeologists, interesting
Afrikaans speakers call them “Plakkies” (plah-keys) in the RSA
Besides “Sandálias Havaianas”, which translates to Havaina Sandals, they also have another common name, which is actually its real name, since we can’t call flip-flops real sandals. The name is “Chinelo(s)” — the S por plural). You pick the name of your choosing.
I suppose you could call them flip-flops, but some ignorant people might think you’re talking about Kerry.
it’s called “havaianas” in brazil, where those are made. translating to english, it would mean “hawaiians”. it costs about 4 usd here.. maybe i cand send you another one. which color would you like? :)
Ok, so this is very late, but just reading old blogs now.
If you’re truly stylish, you buy double plugger thongs, whereas those ones just looked like single pluggers. :-)