Tatto For You

from: Joey L.  to: tiangotlost@gmail.com  date: Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 3:22 PM  subject: Lost in translation  Can you please translate.  Not another “gibberish tattoo”! Obviously it’s supposed to be JOEY from the handy-dandy cheat sheet to the bogus gibberish font.

Ok, quick poll: which sounds like the stronger vessel? Achmë  or Lyon Cheers very much for your thoughts :)

from: Alan Siegrist to: tiangotlost@gmail.com date: Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 11:52 PM subject: Woman tree Hi Tian, Hope you are still enjoying Austria. Have you seen this tattoo? The character is actually the Japanese katakana ホ (ho) not 木 (ki, tree). The mistaken use of ‘ho’ is quite unfortunate considering the woman as both subject and canvas. And yes, the hip-hop slang meaning of ‘ho’ (whore) is known in Japan and written with the same character. http://www.ratemyink.com/?action=ssp&pid=103667

Back in 2005, I saw a photo in Flickr titled " Cindy, a beautiful canvas. " Fast forward to 2012, Dr. Victor Mair met the young lady in person : So I asked Cindy what she thought the tattooed symbols running down her neck and spine meant. She replied: The bottom two were supposed to be success… then respect. Oh well. Works either way. It is what it is. You can put whatever name you want. Queen OF The World is what I prefer. I followed up by asking Cindy what she thought the second, very unusual, symbol meant. She said, "Oh, that's just a cross for Jesus." Tentatively, this is what I had to work with: 1. mǔ 母 ("mother") 2. zǐ 子 ("child"), or perhaps some kind of cross 3. wù 物 ("thing, object") 4. guì 贵 ("precious; expensive") With considerable effort, I could get that to mean "Mother and child are precious things." But I was not satisfied with this interpretation, both...

Well, how are the dice making projects coming along? Better than my blogging frequency, I hope :) Once again it is well overdue for me to post. Exciting news (I hope) is that I am working on two books at the moment: one an edit/rewrite of The Corsers' Hinge to (again, I hope) be released as a stand alone novella, complete with maps, illustrations, a brief explicarium and other appendical (not a real word) matter. Do people want to see this? If it happens it is more likely to come out first. The second is a proper novel that the more I work on it, the more I feel might stretch out into the usual fat, multi-volume "epic" (for want of a better word) I found myself stumbling into with MBT. It will not (as I might have said before... or was that just in a dream...?) be about Rossamünd and Europe this time around, but I hope you are going to really like the new fellow in the spot light (as it were) - he really takes up where dear little Rosey left off. This is all what ...

I herald my long long long overdue blogging return with an apology for my absence - words have just looked foul and ugly to me for an extended period, but they are indeed gaining their shine again. I know that there is some RULE for blogging out there that states that it is dead after a set period of silence. *shrug* ... if I listened to rules I would never had made the Half-Continent in the first place. I see this blog as an on-going conversation, a friendship that must sometimes go silent as life intervenes, yet the relationship is not over, it is simply waiting there for the conversation to begin again when it it possible once more. So here I am, and I hope (and pray) that entries will be resume with a little more regularity. Thank you to BB, Alyosha, Differlot, Anna, Camilla, Carlita, Sean, RJA, Ali, Tradgardmastare and all of you for your patience and encouragement and your musings and questions. For my first actual post I would like to show you all a leaf from notebook 32, drawi...

from: dulce to: "tiangotlost@gmail.com" date: Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 12:19 PM subject: a question/ tatoo dear sir today I met this man, who came to fix my car. when I saw his arm, tattoed , I did ask him the meaning of the word and he said: this is the name of his son, called: João Victor (something like John Victor in English) Is he right? I don´t think so.... best regards dulce It is completely gibberish, not even correct with the gibberish font .