By Anonymous - 23/04/2016 00:33 - United States - Newton Center

Today, my daughter had a vocabulary assignment. She had to find five new words in books and movies. She was watching Shrek, so her first word was "thong". FML
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tzemmy 25

Sometimes it's just great how many adult jokes are in kid movies.

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arano 29

Obviously not if she picked it for her new word.

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NeatNit 32

It's just a different way to say "thing", right? :D

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mds9986 24

It just means "narrow strip of leather." It doesn't have to mean underwear.

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Nessco 36

In Australia, thongs are something you wear on your feet - not underwear. I believe you may call them flip flops.

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tzemmy 25

Sometimes it's just great how many adult jokes are in kid movies.

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Doberman101 29

Well a thong is a strip of leather technically speaking, and it's the first definition given in the dictionary. So I don't really see a wrong in her using it.

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ThatHorse 15

The Australian definition of thong is what americans call "flip flops" too.

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dragoongirl90 34

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lulinator 40

#13, used to be in Canada, too. I still call them thongs just to annoy people.

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HylianWarrior 21

24, I don't know about you, but for me, my words are chosen to properly convey my thoughts, not in an attempt to confuse and annoy others, and lead to them misinterpting what I am saying

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lulinator 40

So you're saying I should change my vocabulary because underwear manufacturers decided to call uncomfortable panties a word that was universally known for decades as footwear? I grew up calling 'flip flops', 'thongs', as that's what my generation learned. I find it hilarious that younger generations get annoyed at my 'historical' term. Should I also change calling the pound symbol on the phone, to calling it a hashtag so younger folk will know what I'm referring to?

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_ravens_ 11

Does she need to bring in pictures of the words too?

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ViviMage 39

Tell her a thong is Australian for sandals.

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ladymunchkin742 11

It's also the older crowds version of flip flops ;-) trust me my mother exclaimed that to a frenemy of my sisters when they were out shopping once buying sandals. My sister was mortified.

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J352SAURUS 30

Sandals and thongs are different. Thongs are "flip flops".

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pete9913 23

maybe it means flip flops, like sandals?

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Nicoleu 17

Thongs are not sandles, they are totally different shoes. Trust me, I'm Australian.

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Ichiya 29

Just have her use this definition: a narrow strip of leather or other material, used especially as a fastening or as the lash of a whip.

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Mobbetta2300 7

Gotta start them off early, eh? Ok I'll leave...

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militarybrat 21

Uh... Does someone need to call the cops? Search your computer?

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nixbling 10

#15 & #44 It was a joke not a dick, don't take it so hard

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hunt381 22

Thong: a narrow strip of leather or other material, used especially as a fastening or as the lash of a whip.

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denden_mushi 11

Did you ask her to use it in a sentence?

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tranced_ 45

kids tend to do the opposite of what they're told not to...

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bryce0110 23

Technically it's not an adult word. A thong is a thin leather strap, commonly thought to just be a type of underwear, but that's not the dictionary definition.

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