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there are no awards on Reddit anymore ?
it's old, because it has reddit silver, but it's not that old, because it has reddit silver.
Unfortunately, it's been dead for a couple of years now, but this blog used to translate everyone's Asian-language tattoos.
A significant number of them use characters that are not from any language at all.
Quite a few that do have meanings are pretty funny, sometimes are quite ironic too.
https://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/
Edit: I forgot about this, but it's still on the front page of that blog and I laughed all over again.
Is this real?
Seems like it. I suppose it's an honest mistake to make, she (or her PR team) put the Kanji for "seven" and "ring" (but also more generally means circular or loop or wheel), but Kanji when combined doesn't always mean what you'd expect it to mean. In this case those two Kanji together is a noun meaning charcoal grill. Kanji combinations can be highly logical, where their standalone meanings come together to a very sensible combined meaning. But sometimes they don't make much sense and the reasoning for the combined meaning is lost to time.
But come on, man... Just search for it online or open a dictionary before you permanently write something on your body.
It's bit of both. 七輪 can mean seven rings, but more often it refers to the grill. Just as 五輪 can mean 5 rings, but it also means the olympics.
I was in line behind someone who had 安 on her nape. I'm guessing she was going for a meaning of like peaceful or restful or something along those lines but you need a compound like 安心 or 安静 for that.
The character alone means more like cheap, at least in Japanese. Maybe it's different in Chinese.
In Chinese, 安 by itself can mean secure. I think.
edit: it can also be a surname. but still seems a bit strange to me to have that character by itself.
Yep, Chinese like to use single character to mean something, but the word generally have positive meaning so it's used in name as well. Though i'm not sure if it's surname, never heard anyone with that name, given name though yeah.
In Wales road signs are printed in both English and Welsh. When a new sign was being made someone sent the English part to a translator, who's out of office message was in Welsh. They assumed that message was the translation and printed it on the sign.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mistranslated-welsh-traffic-sign/
Not a translation error but the worst tattoo I ever saw on someone was a guy with a bloody tampon tramp stamp.
bloody tampon tramp stamp
"bloody" as in bloody idiot, or "bloody" as in black pudding?
My guy. My dude. My man.
Do you know what a tampon is / does? You might be able to infer from that alone.
I knew a guy who had "bad to the bone" written on his neck in Chinese. The problem is, the phrase doesn't translate at all.
So, his tattoo read as "my bones are bad"
Tbf, he was a clown and had something like that coming.
Now the day I was born The nurses all gathered 'round And they gazed in wide wonder At the horror they had found The head nurse spoke up Said, "Leave this one for dead" She could tell right away That my bones were bad
My bones are bad My bones are bad B-B-B-B-Bad B-B-B-B-Bad B-B-B-B-Bad
My bones are bad
When Mr. Glass decided to get a music career.
I know someone who has something tattooed on him: in Thai.
As in, it's a phrase which says 'in Thai' in Thai. So when people ask him, what is that? He says 'it's in Thai'. They say yes, but what is it? 'It's 'in Thai''. Yes, but...
You get the idea.
Some guy came up to me when I first joined the military and told me "hey I got your name tattooed on my ass. Don't believe me?"
Sure enough there was "YOUR NAME" tattooed on his ass check. I'm pretty sure he just liked showing people his ass.
I never tattooed it on myself, or anyone else, but I used to work at a local greasy spoon, and knew a Professor of English that came in regularly, who was originally from China. I asked him for the name specific characters that phonetically made up the syllables of my and my girlfriend's names, he went to wait for his food, and came back with the characters he thought would work best. I used those to burn the characters into the weed stash box that she and I had made.
We told everyone that asked that we had no clue what it actually meant, it just sounded like our names.
But...what did it mean?
English names tend do just get characters that sound phonetically like their English pronunciation. As such, a lot of names, especially longer ones, don't mean anything. If you directly translated them, a lot of the time you'd get like "cabbage the horse wheel" or something.
If you directly translated them, a lot of the time you’d get like “cabbage the horse wheel” or something.
That reminds me of the "Password Strength" comic by xkcd. All right, it's settled. Next time I need new password, I'm feeding random names into a phonetic name translator.
I was thinking of getting 何か日本語で "nanika nihongo de" and if someone would ask me what it meant I’d say "something in Japanese"
I've wanted to get Leviticus 19:18 tattooed on me somewhere prominently for years, but too many people would not get the joke and think I was religious.
I met someone with a "Man shall not lie with another man" tattoo.
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That verse is literally the previous chapter to the "don't get tattoos" verse. Why did he think one was important enough to get tattooed while ignoring the other?
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He really chose to get that tattooed?!
There was no way a conversation with this guy would go well, so I'm going to be stuck with these questions forever.
Reading through various translations, the first part seems to say "don't cut/gash your body in honor/memory/mourning of the dead, but most of the translations leave it somewhat ambiguous (at least to me) as to whether it means "don't tattoo yourself in honor/memory/mourning of the dead" or just, "don't tattoo yourself at all". Also, it sounds as though cutting/gashing yourself for other reasons is isn't breaking any rules.
I had a roommate that asked me for ideas for a tattoo and I told him to just get 'Chinese Symbols' written in all caps on him.
The amazing bastard did it.
Not the first time I've Lemmied this story, and it's not a tattoo it's a motorcycle decal. Kid turns up on a Kawasaki forum to show off his Ninja's paint scheme, and on the front cowling are five kanji figures, the first and the third were identical. Someone asked "Why does your bike say 'pig dog pig bird horse?'" He says "Nah man, it says N-I-N-J-A. That's how you spell 'Ninja' in Japanese."