THE TOMSTORY

I saw this on one of my students' t-shirts a couple weeks ago, but haven't had time to put it on the blog. Naturally, I stopped class to copy this down, which of course led to questions about what the hell I was doing. So I explained to them about Engrish and how funny it is to us. They didn't quite understand, being like 7 years old and all, but I think they soooooort of got something about what I was saying. I think it boggles their mind as much as ours that something like a t-shirt or a sign could have bad English on it, since it's made professionally, but they don't have the grasp of English to realize anything is wrong, so they don't exactly believe me.

By the way, I referred to it as "bad English" to them, too, and they thought I meant "bad words." Before they got all excited about a first-grader's shirt with swear words on it, I had to explain to them that I meant "wrong English."

Wear the Love
Love is wearing THE TOMSTORY with your family. "When I remind of our family love. Love is beloning to someone who really loves you. Love is taking time out to be with the family. Love is wearing THE TOMSTORY with your family
Love is beloning to someone who really loves you.

I don't know what THE TOMSTORY is, but I assume it's the brand of clothing. That's kind of sick.