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Subject: Re: Universal language of wet t-shirts?

Date: Fri 07/07/06 09:40:49 GMT

Name: Andrew

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It's not always like this. In Poland foam parties and beach parties are called in English, but wet-t conteste are called "miss mokrego podkoszulka", which translates directly as miss wet t-shirt.

Andrew.

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Universal language of wet t-shirts?

By AnthonyX - anthonyx@jowc.net Fri 07/07/06 08:08:36 GMT

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In the clip referenced a couple of posts down, Sonya twice utters the phrase "wet t-shirt contest" in English. This is at least the second time recently I've encountered the phrase used like this - someone speaking in some language other than English using the English phrase.

I find it rather curious that the English phrase is used, rather than some equivalence in the local language (for example, Nässen Sie T-Shirt wettkampf). Obviously, the concept must be universally understood in order to use a borrowed phrase. Perhaps it speaks to the origin and spread of the phenomenon - starting in the English speaking world and likely becoming a well-established American cultural phenomenon before being exported to the rest of the world?

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