Not sandals.
I don’t wear them though you probably do. Flip flops, flaps, slaps, sandals, thongs, jandals, plakkies, slops, toe-splitters, honey-bunnies, li’l foot friends, deep south jonks. Each and every nomenclature juvenile or stupid, like the footwear itself, unless one lives on the islands, is Hawaiian, and is allowed to call them “slippahs” which is cool and ok.
The footwear choice of surfers since time immemorial circa ancient Egypt. Those bros wore them, Japanese Samurai wore them, Brazilians wear them as do you.
But, again, each descriptor a foolish and silly word.
How can a grown man step outside the house in thongs?
In toe-tanners?
He cannot, nor can a grown woman, but thankfully this issue has finally risen to a head.
David Lee Scales and I get together, now twice weekly, for chats and today’s might be the most important of all. I, if you somehow forgot, have my master’s degree in Applied Linguistics.
Jongs?
No.
Listen to the proper locution for those non-island born/bred here.
And enjoy.
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Bogan stilettos, you mean?
V trendy. I’m old school and like slippahs. Slides look like something the old lady next door would wear. ‘Cept now they are black-n-white with the Air Jordan logo.
Can’t handle the jandel in your double pluggers
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What’s the vote on the kids’ ‘slides’?
we used to call them japanese safety boots!
Samoan safety shoes in NZ
Hawaianas around here, or chalas.or sandalias if you’re old school.
Sometimes I think when the United States Postal Service says we can expect problems with mail delivery around election time, that this would somehow affect Chas mailing it in. Nope.
It just depends on which one of your Mother’s I’m with, and in which location….
Here on BI West Side, it’s flip-flops or slippahs. Olu Kai mostly, Locals for walking to the surf, in case someone decides to steal them. No sand at my local: walk across lava rocks to access the surf. With the water temp between 78-81 degrees year round, wetsuits are a thing of the past. Island life, brothers. Don’t hate me. ☺️
A’a’ eats up the Locals wikiwiki.