Newsgroup: it.cultura.linguistica.inglese
Titolo: thong

Ma thong sta sia per infradito che per perizoma? L'inglese č proprio
strano...
Giovanni

 strano...
La striscia passa tra l'alluce e il dito. Lo stesso idea, no?

 La striscia passa tra l'alluce e il dito. Lo stesso idea, no?
Ehehehe sě l'ho realizzato dopo un po'... la striscia si chiama crotch?
Giovanni

 Giovanni
Entrambi!
Anche l'itlaliano lo č: ospite č colui che ospita o chi č ospitato?
:)
B.

 Ehehehe sě l'ho realizzato dopo un po'... la striscia si chiama crotch?
Della perizoma? Penso di no. Forse la striscia si chiama 'strap'.

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"Del perizoma", semmai, č maschile. :-)))
Cinzia

> "Del perizoma", semmai, č maschile. :-)))
Faccio un inchino all'esperta del perizoma.

 Faccio un inchino all'esperta del perizoma.
.........che è poi da distinguere ulteriormente dal tanga e dalla mutanda
brasiliana!! :-). Eh, sì, in fatto di mutande sono proprio un'esperta!!
:-))))))))
Cinzia
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 :-))))))))
As regards ladies' fashion -- and foundation wear in particular --
matters can get rather confusing without a picture.
Therefore, where can we find pictures of you modelling knickers and
their modern derivatives? :-)
With the English and Italian names for each type, of course.
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Xakero

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You'll find pictures of me wearing different  kinds of underwear with their
names in English and Italian at 
http://www.mybutt.com.To
 enter the website
you must subscribe and it's only 500 bucks. Then you pay another 50 $ for
each picture you want to see. :-))))))))))))))
Cinzia
P.S. Ahň, se mi garantite che siete veramente disposti a pagare lo faccio
davvero 'sto website!! :-))))))
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 davvero 'sto website!! :-))))))
Ahem!
But more seriously now, our self-declared esperta delle mutande: So
far we have seen thong
(
http://www2.victoriassecret.com/proddisplay/?prnbr=4B-146895&rfnbr=300&cgnbr=OSBRPTHGZZZ&page=1&cgname=OSBRPTHGZZZ
)
= il perizoma.
String or G-string or V-string
(
http://www2.victoriassecret.com/proddisplay/?prnbr=4B-151165&rfnbr=300&cgnbr=OSBRPTHGZZZ&page=1&cgname=OSBRPTHGZZZ
)
= ???
Tanga (
http://www2.victoriassecret.com/proddisplay/?prnbr=4B-115516&rfnbr=297&cgnbr=OSBRPBIKZZZ&page=1&cgname=OSBRPBIKZZZ
)
= ???
??? () = la mutanda brasiliana
Some fashion houses use string and thong interchangeably, while in my
book they are distinctly different. Others call a tanga (strings or
narrow bands on the sides only) a string slip or string bikini (see
picture under tanga).
To top it all, some use combination names like "tanga string", "string
tanga" and "thong G-string", and again others call a thong a tanga.
See now why one can get confused without pictures? Having liaised in
Thailand, some time in the past, with the expatriate manager of an
international ladies' foundation wear manufacturer I have to admit
that I am not totally ignorant of the subject matter, but I have not
fully kept myself up-to-date on new developments and trends, and some
of the skimpier items of apparel available today were less fashionable
or non-existent at that time.
So what, then, is una mutanda brasiliana, in English presumably a
Brazilian brief? Like a tanga, but reaching higher, closer to the
naval? Or another, particular shape?
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Xakero
  P.S. And you thought I was kidding?!

 names in English and Italian at 
http://www.mybutt.com
. :-))))))))))))))
You didn't know that 
www.mybutt.com
 was already taken, did you?
However, 
www.meigluteimaximi.com
 is still available :-)
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Xakero

 = il perizoma.
And this advertising you are doing... is it to earn the $500?

 And this advertising you are doing... is it to earn the $500?
It may look like it, it is true, but in fact I am not, never have been, and
do not ever expect to be, associated with the referenced company, except
that my wife has done some shopping there.
It did, however, seem to me the logical place to look for pictures to
illustrate what I was trying to explain, in the absence of Cinzia's
pictures.
Hence, I shall have to find other ways of earning those $500, more's the
pity :-)
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Xakero
  Hard work has never killed anybody ... but why take chances?
 
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   P.S. And you thought I was kidding?!
Wow, Xakero, I'm so impressed!!  :-)))
Cinzia
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 the buttocks uncovered.
Cinzia, you have been most patient with me. Thank you ever so much! 
Now I have got the full picture, even without your pictures (in
ascending order of textile usage):
An American string is an Italian tanga.
An American thong is an Italian perizoma.
An American tanga is an Italian mutanda brasiliana.
My fountain of mostly useless knowledge has been updated and
replenished. My world is back in order. Perhaps I shall, after all,
now be able to sleep well at night.
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Xakero
  _ A thong is not a piece of scanty swimwear, as in America, but a
fine example of Australian footwear. (Source: A definitive guide to
Aussies) ... which brings us back to where Giovanni Bajo started this
thread.
P.S. Incidentally, Cinzia, I love your broad smile. (On top of your
good heart, that is)

 See now why one can get confused without pictures?
Nah, that's simply because you barely focus your attention on the
thong/tanga/whatever when you see one. ;)
Giovanni

 good heart, that is)
Thank you very much Xakero! You seem to be a very fine person.
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Having had access, over the weekend, to the OED Online, I thought I
owed it to Giovanni to post the entry in that dictionalry.
QUOTE
1. a. A narrow strip of hide or leather, for use as a lace, cord,
band, strap, or the like.
  In early use, esp. the lace or 'latchet' of a shoe. 
    b. A phylactery. Only OE. rare. 
    c. Such a strip used as an instrument of flagellation; also as the
lash of a whip; hence spec. a whip-lash of plaited hide.
    d. transf. A similar strip of other material, as a tough pliant
plant-stem, etc.; spec. a root or root-cutting of horse-radish or
sea-kale.
    e. fig.; esp. in phrase to cut a large thong (or large thongs) of
another man's leather, thongs of other men's hides, to be lavish with
that which is another's.
    f. Austral. and U.S. = FLIP-FLOP f. Cf. thong-sandal, sense 2
below.
    2. attrib. and Comb., as thong-point, -wearer; thong-hurled adj.;
thong-drill, a drill rotated by means of a thong or cord wound round
its stem; thong-man, a man who wields the thong or lash; in quot., a
critic; thong sandal Austral. and U.S. = sense 1f above; thong-seal, a
name sometimes given to the bearded seal, Erignathus barbatus, the
hide of which is cut into a continuous strip for use as a line; thong
weed = sea thong s.v. SEA n. 23e.
APPENDED FROM ADDITIONS 1993 
thong, n. 
    Add:    [1.] g. A skimpy garment (similar to a G-string)
consisting of a cache-sexe and a narrow elasticated strip extending
between the legs and buttocks to meet a waistband, and worn esp. as an
item of swimwear.
UNQUOTE
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
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Xakero