Name this item of clothing

[columbus]

I thought a wife-beater had torn off sleeves? And usually shrunk some what, showing the beer belly and protruding bellybutton.

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That is probably an Alaskan variation. I've been to Alaska, it wouldn't surprise me.
The guy who flew our rental airplane up to the top of Denali from Talkeetna wore something like that.
Totally Hot

Tom

 

[Valjean]

There are a lot of everyday items that go by different monikers in different regions. It's amusing, sometimes.

 

[columbus]

There are a lot of everyday items that go by different monikers in different regions. It's amusing, sometimes.

It really is.
Those silly Brits think trucks are called lorries.
The queen must make them do that.

Tom

 

[Valjean]

They call pants trousers, and underwear pants.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

What? That waistcoat is a vest?

What's a waistcoat?

 

[Smart_Guy]

I put a photo of myself in chat, and me, @Treks and @Smart_Guy couldn't agree on what the garment I was wearing was called

Why, it was an underwear!

It's a draw again btw!

 

[dantech]

That's Columbus' rape day shirt..
Right @columbus?

 

[columbus]

That's Columbus' rape day shirt..
Right @columbus?

Get over it boy.
You can't afford me.

Tom

 

[dantech]

Get over it boy.
You can't afford me.

Tom

But... But.... But..... But......

 

[Kirran]

I've changed my mind. The English Language Board will have @ratikala in charge of Vocabulary, myself in charge of Spelling, @Sunstone in charge of Grammar and @Treks to make Coffee and Clean the Floors.

 

[Treks]

Sweet, I got out of all the forum work again and can do moving meditation whilst I clean the floors. I might have a scientific breakthrough and solve the problem of world peace, ay.

Thank you, Kirran.

 

[Kirran]

Damn, and I'll be stuck doing thinking work. No moskha for me I did not think this through.

 

[Tumah]

Oh... oooooh!

Is there a husband beater?

Yes, but in English we call them "wives".

 

[Tumah]

Unterleiberl.

I thought "hemed" is a shirt.

 

[Tarheeler]

An a-shirt?

This.

An "A" (for athletic) shirt.

 

[Flankerl]

I thought "hemed" is a shirt.

Barbaric German calls it an "Unterhemd". But civilised magnificent glorious wonderful lovely exquisite Austrian German calls it an "Unterleiberl".

 

[Tumah]

Barbaric German calls it an "Unterhemd". But civilised magnificent glorious wonderful lovely exquisite Austrian German calls it an "Unterleiberl".

Oh, I didn't know there were different dialects.
I had a friend in high school from Vienna. His family sent him to NY for high school I guess. Really nice guy.

 

[Kirran]

Oh, I didn't know there were different dialects.

Lots of German dialects. Quite a few are mutually unintelligible with Standard German, in the northwest of Germany and in Baden-Wurtemburg especially, I believe.

 

[Flankerl]

Oh, I didn't know there were different dialects.
I had a friend in high school from Vienna. His family sent him to NY for high school I guess. Really nice guy.

Have a map.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Continental_West_Germanic_languages.png


Also as an Austrian citizen born and raised outside of the Forbidden City it is my duty to proclaim that Vienna is a dump and its people are all horrible.

 

[Flankerl]

Lots of German dialects. Quite a few are mutually unintelligible with Standard German, in the northwest of Germany and in Baden-Wurtemburg especially, I believe.

Standard German is a written language that was artificially created. Its roots are High German(in the south) and Middle German(well in the middle). Low German(in the North) wasn't really seen as German at all and it was really looked down upon. Because of that there is almost no Low German influence in Standard German which is why a German speaking Low German will sound to most foreigners like a Dutch.