I'd definitely get a native or fluent non-native speaker to double check the meaning of any other language tattoos. At least with dead languages you're less likely to run into groups of people going WTF?
Plus I've heard too many stories about people getting tattooed with the wrong thing on purpose, rather than by accident (both of which a potential scenario as depicted by the image).
I do remember someone on a newsgroup I used to be on who had the kanji for "stupid gaijin" (=westener) tattooed on his arm. But he did that on purpose due to the amount of bad/wrong kanji tattoos out there, not as some vengeful prank on the part of the tattoo artist.
A friend of mine went to Japan, and found herself in a park with lots of heavily tattooed Japanese rockabilly kids. They could not believe that she had Japanese tattoos, and she could not believe that they were covered in Celtic knots and gothic script...
Much as I love Celtic knots and such, I don't really have the ethnic/cultural background for that either... though at least I'm from the same continent, heh.
She had Japanese style tattoos such as koi/water/clouds stuff or also kanji word tattoos?
She has Japanese art on her body - she loves it with a passion; she'd never consider having words she was not absolutely certain of tattooed on her. Actually, people just being too thick or irresponsible to research their tattoos is a favourite rant of hers :)
Someone posted it in IRC, I forget who though, wasn't really paying too much attention to the conversation. I think it might have been vervain, but I don't dare say that with any certainty.
I read an article about a guy who got busted for doing tattoos like this. He was upset about gaijin getting tattoos they didn't understand, so he'd write stuff on people like "Insert General Tso's Chicken here" The girl who got that on her stomach thought it didn't make sense because she was a vegetarian. She found at when some asians were laughing at her tattoo.
This was also a plot element in a recent episode of Lost. A character was in Thailand and told he was getting tattooed with something about what kind of quiet reluctant hero he is, he later discovers it means "He walks amongst us, but he is not one of us". The further twist is that what the actors tatoo actually says is "Eagles high up, cleaving the space". But unless you can read chinese, you're not going to know that.
This cartoon is the funniest twist I've seen on this yet.
I honestly don't remember. I'm sure no one has made up a law specifically for this yet.
It was probably some dubious sale kind of law. Of course once he's arrested, it makes the lawsuits that follow much easier to win, even if he isn't convicted.
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I'd definitely get a native or fluent non-native speaker to double check the meaning of any other language tattoos. At least with dead languages you're less likely to run into groups of people going WTF?
Plus I've heard too many stories about people getting tattooed with the wrong thing on purpose, rather than by accident (both of which a potential scenario as depicted by the image).
I do remember someone on a newsgroup I used to be on who had the kanji for "stupid gaijin" (=westener) tattooed on his arm. But he did that on purpose due to the amount of bad/wrong kanji tattoos out there, not as some vengeful prank on the part of the tattoo artist.
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She had Japanese style tattoos such as koi/water/clouds stuff or also kanji word tattoos?
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The girl who got that on her stomach thought it didn't make sense because she was a vegetarian. She found at when some asians were laughing at her tattoo.
This was also a plot element in a recent episode of Lost. A character was in Thailand and told he was getting tattooed with something about what kind of quiet reluctant hero he is, he later discovers it means "He walks amongst us, but he is not one of us". The further twist is that what the actors tatoo actually says is "Eagles high up, cleaving the space". But unless you can read chinese, you're not going to know that.
This cartoon is the funniest twist I've seen on this yet.
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It was probably some dubious sale kind of law.
Of course once he's arrested, it makes the lawsuits that follow much easier to win, even if he isn't convicted.
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Seems appropriate to this discussion..
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LOL
To be fair though that is a fucking class tat. It may not have longevity but in in the current world... ahem apologies again... w00t!!!
Ben XX (damn internet enabled bars)