What does my tattoo really mean?

[Demonic_Duck]

I've never come across anyone in China with a nonsensical tattoo in English, though. That seems to be confined to idiots in the west who get tattooed in a language they don't know, by tattooists who know even less.

 

A Chinese friend-of-a-friend in England had a tattoo saying "I don't sad" in a vaguely cursive script. She thought it said "I don't care" (which would have been an equally stupid tattoo to be honest, bad grammar or no bad grammar...)

[歐博思]

 

 

"...I've never come across anyone in China with a nonsensical tattoo in English..."

 

[liuzhou]

 

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Good old Photoshop.

[Shelley]

Its a shame its not be done better, or maybe that was the idea Obvious Photoshop

[Demonic_Duck]

Whilst we're on the subject...

[Maika]

Ok thanks for trying guys

[studychinese]

I love bringing up Leviticus 19:28 to any Christian with a tattoo.

http://www.av1611.org/tattoos/bible.html

[陳德聰]

K gotta share that my friend whose name is 茹冰 has an ex who tattooed "water" on her arm... Will try to get the picture.

[kagato]

"I've never come across anyone in China with a nonsensical tattoo in English, though. That seems to be confined to idiots in the west who get tattooed in a language they don't know, by tattooists who know even less."

 

I talked to a Vietnamese ladyboy in Saigon with 水 tattooed on herself. I asked her what it meant, and she said she didn't know, and I told her I'm pretty sure it means water.

 

Also, the Chinese/Asian version of getting tattoos without knowing the meaning seems to be buying $2 English T-shirts without knowing the meaning. Some of the best I've seen are "Acne" (I did a double-take to make sure it wasn't "Acme"), "BOY" on a girl, and many other gibberish words created by a cat jumping on a keyboard or something similar.

[dnevets]

I knew a Chinese guy with "HUSH" tattooed down the length of the inside of his index finger, so that when he held it up to his mouth it would make a 'shut-up' double-whammy.

[Demonic_Duck]

That's actually kind of brilliant. Now I want to get “嘘” tattooed on my index finger.