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Dot in the Sky ([personal profile] dotinthesky) wrote2008-07-30 02:52 pm

[identity profile] desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com 2008-07-31 01:12 pm (UTC)(link)
they're chancletas, thank you very much!!!

[identity profile] commonpeople.livejournal.com 2008-08-04 09:20 am (UTC)(link)
Chancletas sounds awfully close to chicletes, which is chewing gum in portuguese. ;-)

[identity profile] desayuno-ingles.livejournal.com 2008-08-04 02:04 pm (UTC)(link)
si, pero no, chancletas son las mismas de "thongs" (in the argot of Australians). It was a somewhat obscure language joke.