Friday, November 18, 2005

"Think"


http://www.bmezine.com/tattoo/A51116/high/bmepb165499.jpg

When written correctly, 想 means "to think" or "speculate".


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9 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 20, 2005 at 10:50 AM

    When written incorrectly, it means, "I didn't think at all before getting this tattoo."

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  2. amesNovember 20, 2005 at 3:48 PM

    Hi Tian,

    Just spotted a few pictures of Christina Aguilera's wedding rehearsal dinner which had a Japanese theme.

    http://p099.ezboard.com/fjjboardfrm12.showMessage?topicID=95637.topic

    There's a photo on there of the napkins which have characters on them supposedly spelling out "Christina" and "Jordan".

    Any word on the accuracy?

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  3. tianNovember 20, 2005 at 5:44 PM

    The photo is blurry.

    Regardless,

    "Christina" is クリスティーナ

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  4. Hong MaNovember 21, 2005 at 10:54 AM

    However, as it is written, it means "thimk."

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  5. AnonymousNovember 22, 2005 at 9:52 AM

    Obviously he's an Apple fan, since he wanted his "think" different.

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  6. AnonymousNovember 22, 2005 at 1:12 PM

    It seems like Christina is correct, but Jordan is incorrectly. It should be ジョダン.

    http://img371.imageshack.us/img371/1661/fwsxev9tm.jpg

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  7. AnonymousNovember 28, 2005 at 5:44 PM

    As Tian said, クリスティーナ is correct. Alternatively, following native Japanese pronunciation, クリスチーナ is also possible, since the English sound "tee" does not exist in Japanese. However,　ジョーダン, not ジョダン is to be preferred, the lengthened vowel standing in for the unpronouncable (in Japanese) "r" sound. Sometimes, following Continental European pronunciation, ル　is used in such a case for "r", so I suppose ジョルダン might also be possible, but it's not the most likely choice, IMHO.

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  8. G. Val HartJune 29, 2006 at 8:46 AM

    This is great! It's like the poster some people have (to make fun of the poster some OTHER people have) that says "THIKN!"
    Perhaps he did it on purpose (doubtful, but hey, I'm feeling generous today)
    :)

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  9. AndrewTSeptember 29, 2006 at 6:55 PM

    ジョーダン would be the best phonetic match, but I imagine anyone who is fluent in Japanese would steer away from that transcription since it's homophonous with 冗談 (joudan, which means "joke").

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