The T-shirts over here can be random and surreal but I found it very hard not to laugh when conducting the one to one speaking exam for one of the thirteen-year-old girls today. Emblazened in deep-red on her pink T-shirt, in large capital letters was "FARTY".

An unspoken tribute to their teacher?

harharhar!

Perhaps you should teach her the word 'flatulent'?

Did she know what it meant?

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Originally posted by Kalleh:
Did she know what it meant?

Naturally I didn't embarrass her by asking. What do you take me for? A monster?

No, of course not. I just don't get wearing a t-shirt with a word that you don't know what it means. And, I can't imagine a 13-year-old girl wearing a t-shirt with "FARTY," knowing what it means. So I wondered if there was more to the story...

In Japan I saw lots of t shirts with nonsense English on them. It's no stranger than t shirts in the west covered in Chinese characters.

goofy is right on the mark

T-shirts are random and surreal here.
Just a short while ago I saw a "Mucky Mouse" shirt. A little old lady who lives nearby wears a baseball cap with Fuck You written on it. Whenever I have asked a student about some (more innocuous) slogan they have NEVER known what the words on the shirt mean.

Okay, but for the record, I'd always want to know what the Chinese characters on a t-shirt meant before I wore it. However, I am only an n of 1.