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Angel tattoos are probably the most common designs for women worldwide. Angel tattoos can be versatile and may be used to create unique designs in a lot of different ways. Angels are thought to be one of the most beautiful heavenly creatures and represent different ideas to different individuals. Professional tattoo studios typically have a number of angel tattoos to pick from and each might possibly be altered into whatever design you'd like. Angels have represented beauty, purity, and spirituality in several different cultures throughout history. The character of a angel has often been employed to symbolize someone's transformation to a higher plane of existence, either physically, mentally, or spiritually. Most angel tattoos have a great amount of detail so the attractive nature associated with the design and style and the intricate aspects of a design can match the loveliness associated with the angels which have been depicted in literature and art. Angel tattoos are easily...
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Steve Caires of Engrish.com sent me this today: http://www.kirainet.com/english/hemorrhoids-%E7%97%94/ From Hector Garcia's A Geek in Japan : "At first glance, it seems like a kid with a supercool sweater with a Japanese character. The problem is that the character 痔 means “hemorrhoid” in Japanese. Probably the designer confused the character 侍 , which means “samurai” and is pronounced “ji”, with the character 痔 that means “hemorrhoid” and is also pronounced “ji”… Both characters are graphically very similar but the meaning is totally different!"
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Dr. Victor Mair from University of Pennsylvania sent me a link to a recent posting in the Language Log: The Chinese on banner for "Bodies... The Exhibition" does not say "discover your body", rather "discover your honorable corpse." [More]
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My father has forwarded me this news story about hilarious mistranslated signs used by Royal Caribbean Cruise Line . It appears Royal Caribbean Cruise Line did not verify the Chinese translation's accuracy and blindly trusted Google Translate. Luckily paper signs can be reprinted, unlike tattoos. Corned Beef Hash => "salted beef jumbled signal" Ham and Bamboo Shoot Salad => "clumsy actor and bamboo's salad" Garden Greens => "[botanical] garden became green color" Chicken and Mushroom tart => "timid and rapidly grown prostitute(s)" Regular Milk => "policy milk" Half & Half => "secondary butter blended mixture" Green Split Pea Soup => "green separation pea soup" English Bacon => "English [language] cultivate root" * Update: several readers have informed me that 培根 is an acceptable transliteration for "bacon" in Taiwan. However, the sign is still incorrect for u...
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Hello hello, hello! Still here, still kicking about, avoiding the blank page and all that. A favourite truism of mine (heard as a sample on Ride's "Going Blank Again") goes, "even a stuffed clock tells the right time twice a day." So in that spirit I am blogging again after an extended hiatus. First, I have an interview for your perusal over at fellow author, Greg Mitchell's page. A caution for those of a less religious bent that one of the answers gets pretty religious, so bare with me. Well, I have some questions to answer, I will have a crack at one: The glorious Justine H . asks: "... How exactly did you come up with the idea for leers? Are leers able to fall in love?And where on the Half-Continent did you come up with such an epicly amazing character as Sebastipole (and his amazingly epic name?!)?!?!" Well, I think it came first with seeing something that made me think it would be "cool" to put a large box right on someone's ...
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from: Gunnar to: tiangotlost@gmail.com date: Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:16 AM subject: Funny tattoo "Ride Hard Die Free" Hi, I stumbled across this tattoo online, and I haven't seen on your blog before. It is supposed to say "Ride Hard Die Free" but as you can see Google Translate made a creative interpretation of the phrase. I hope you enjoy it! http://beckmansbruk.blogg.se/2010/january/7-e-januari-1.html Thank you for a great blog! Regards, Gunnar Grammatically speaking, this tattooed phrase is Chinese, however its translation back to English is far from "Ride Hard Die Free". Granted, 免費 does mean "free of charge", 乘坐 does mean "riding, or being passenger", 硬 does mean "hard", but 模 or 硬模 is not verb for "die, or dying". Rather it is the noun "die" as in "die-casting" or "die-molding". I guess this young man is quite proud and wants everyone to know he enjoys "freely shoving ...
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from: Victor H. Mair to: Tian date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 7:30 PM subject: smatter Hanzi Smatter circa 1700 http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3160 A friend of Dr. Mair sent him a photograph of Dutch chinoiserie tile panel from the late 17th-early 18th century, and asked him to help her identify some of the curious scenes represented on it. Dr. Mair, however, was immediately drawn to the cartouche in the upper left corner. Here is what happened...
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from: Fryeda K. to: tiangotlost@gmail.com date: Fri, May 20, 2011 at 1:20 PM subject: Tattoo This idiot went to get "his name", but now gets "lots of laughs in Chinese restaurants". So, the question is, what does it really say? Thanks! Although top character is 積 , however it would not make any sense combining with 神 . Most likely it was a typo and intended tattoo is 精神 , or spirit.
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