I mean we can probably all visualize the person who had that tattoo and “foreign pervert” probably fits them perfectly.
LPT: Never get a tattoo in a language that you don't understand
Submitted 1 year ago by STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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whoisearth@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
straightens fedora; leans on sheathed katana like a cane, from underneath a long trenchcoat
AKSHUALLY…
whenigrowup356@lemmy.world 1 year ago
To be fair, those kind of mean the same thing
Kythtrid@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
And honestly a pretty hillarious phrase to tattoo when some white foreigner rolls up asking for a “Lover of Asian Beauty” tattoo.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Wasn’t a tattoo, but a motorcycle decal. This dude had a Kawasaki crotch rocket with five kanji characters on it. Posted it to a forum, and this weeb says “lol where’d you get that?” dude answers all defensively “From the mall, why?” Weeb says “It says pig bird pig lizard dog.” “No dude, it says N-I-N-J-A.” He thought kanji characters translated directly to the latin alphabet.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 year ago
豕 鳥 豕 蜴 犬
Resistentialism@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Damn, I kinda wanna play my English ninja wkth the Japanese word for ninja. But I do not want to end up like that.
FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Wait did the characters look like the letters for ninja or was it the (I’m assuming Japanese) equivalent of the letter n then I and so on
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I don’t precisely remember, I’m recalling a forum post I read at least a decade ago, but I do recall that he had at least tried to literally translate the letters “NINJA” to Asian text beyond just picking some McDojo font. I don’t know if he had attempted to find kanji characters that looked relatively like latin letters or if someone convinced him that “This one means N” or something.
fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Not really related, but a couple of years ago in my home country, a Western bloke was actually pictured on the internet wearing a shirt that said something something like “白人很笨” (white people are stupid).
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Some of us buy those ironically though. I had a shirt that said (and I unfortunately cannot put it in kana/Kanji atm) something very close to, in full kana and kanji: “I am a stupid American. I’ll buy anything.”
I knee fully what it meant because the sentence was pretty easy, but I still wanted to travel to Japan wearing it.
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Kinda want to get one in english now.
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I imagine you were quite first impression popular with the local vendors!
Etterra@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well I mean it’s not wrong. Everybody’s stupid, it’s just a matter of quantity and context.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There’s a great website documenting this. I’m surprised no one has linked to it.
Example:
Ariana Grande’s new tattoo, 七輪.
She wanted it to promote and celebrate her latest single, 7 Rings.
Instead it is referencing to a type of Japanese charcoal cooking grill.
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
This one is great because those are literally the characters for “7” and “ring” but if you put them next to each other they mean “portable charcoal grill”. Luckily it was an easy fix. An additional character was added and it now reads “7 rings” as intended.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
It’s kinda still messed up, even with the additional characters because you read right to left with vertical writing, and technically it should have a つ after the 7.
Paradoxvoid@aussie.zone 1 year ago
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I have a friend that has Thai writing tattooed on his leg that translates to “I love chicken soup.”
I think when he was drunk he went into a tattoo parlor thinking it was a restaurant.
NewAgeOldPerson@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve seen a few Sanskrit ones. Nothing drastic in real life, thankfully. I find the Chinese ones much more hilarious.
Had a friend in college legit get ancient Chinese calligraphy. Absolutely beautiful. But my international center buddy told me separately it just meant window. It was supposed to be this heavenly view or some such thing. No. It was window.
fruitleatherpostcard@lemm.ee 1 year ago
How about ‘never get a tattoo’. Full stop.
aberrate_junior_beatnik@midwest.social 1 year ago
I will likely never get a tattoo. But I know there are lots of reasons to get tattoos, and it seems to me that the vast majority of people not only don’t regret but feel good about the tattoos they get. So I dunno, sleep on it, but go ahead and get a tattoo if you really want.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’ve only got one on my inner wrist but it makes me so happy when I see it.
VikingHippie@lemmy.wtf 1 year ago
That’s a very odd thing to get tattooed…I love it! heads straight to the local tattoo shop
BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Why? Are you allergic to fun or something?
sunblocks@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s so weird, for over 30 years it didn’t make sense to me, until all of a sudden I knew what I wanted and it just clicked? One thigh and calf piece later and I’m addicted. I get nothing but compliments during shorts season and the Leo in me lives for that shit.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
You do you. I have none myself and am unlikely to ever get one. But I’m pro-choice on it. For adults. Kids should stick with ruining their hair, because it’s a non-permanent way to experience regret. Could probably lead to better choices about tattoos later. Piercings, too.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have never gotten a tat because I am too afraid of regrets. I admire a good ink job and whenever I see someone with a fresh one I will talk to them about it. But like you it isn’t a thing I would want.
Also agree about hair and clothes. Unless it is totally inappropriate for weather or the situation (yes kids you are dressing up for the wedding we were invited to) I let my kids work it out for themselves. My parents were strict about clothing and I won’t put my children through that.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My personal rule is that I can get any tattoo that I want, provided I still want to get it a decade later.
fosforus@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
永远不要纹身。
snippyfulcrum@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I think this is very much an ‘each to their own’ thing.
I have a Loth Cat from Star Wars on my arm I got at Star Wars Celebration 2019 and so I get warm fuzziness and memories of that time when I see it there. It was a fun experience I got to have with my family… and a very cute little critter too.
Admittedly I’ve been asked many times if it was a Pokémon LOL
billy_bollocks@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Lol all of the mid 20’s to mid 30’s hipster chicks with arm sleeves are down voting you.
I have a couple of tats I got with my squad in Iraq when I was in the Army. Explaining those tats to those same younger hipster gals never seems to go over well.
happilybitchycowboy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Why not? I got Vete a la Mierda tattooed on my arm when I was young and still learning Spanish. Occasionally, I’ve had the great opportunity to pull my sleeve up.
eatham@aussie.zone 1 year ago
What does that mean
RyeMeadow@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Fuck off”
Literally “Go to the shit”
Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It means “Fuck You”
Jikal@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I saw a pic that supposedly said “egg fried rice”. I wouldn’t even be mad
IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 1 year ago
Hentai Gaijin
Siethron@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Foreign Transformer?
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Franky is that you‽
SlopppyEngineer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
A French women got an English tattoo. The two sentences were full of your/you’re and it’s/its mistakes.
1847953620@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s pretty slopppy
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
A friend of mine wanted a tattoo in french, she speaks it but not fluently, I found a quote for her that she loved, she transcribed it to paper to bring it to the tattoo artist… I think she transcribed it from memory because she made a mistake in the text and I never had the heart to tell her… And it’s a very long quote in a straight line on her vertebral column, so it’s not easy to hide if she wears something more revealing…
floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
When I was a kid I remember a clothing store getting in trouble because it was selling underpants with an artistic Arabic lettering design. They hadn’t checked what it said, but it turned out to say “There is no god but God and Mohammed is his prophet.” Having this on underpants didn’t please anyone.
Etterra@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How many Chinese people and places have mistranslated a word into English as “fuck?” I can’t remember which word it is, some kind of food. So ya’know, glass houses and all that.
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Pho king
joel_feila@lemmy.world 1 year ago
1 man with menstruation tattooed on his neck
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Reminds me of XiaomaNYC intentionally getting chicken noodle soup to make the folks in china town crack up
Comment105@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The Chinese characters / text is 变態外人
(romanized “biàn tài wàirén”)
darq@kbin.social 1 year ago
日本語土手
dojan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Image
This is my favourite. 痔 means haemorrhoid. Presumably it was meant to say 侍, samurai.
insomniac@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Why works you presume that? Maybe they’re suffering and trying to raise awareness.
Strobelt@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Maybe he’s a 痔 侍, haemorrhoid samurai, bringing awareness and defending those with inflamed bottoms
dojan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Because their radicals are really similar.
Rolando@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“The Way of the Samurai lies in devoting one’s body and soul to one’s anus.” -Hagakure
randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 year ago
mmmm sweet sweet 痔
pirat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Samurrhoid