Wednesday, January 4, 2006

"Bad Yob"



Reader Nicolas emailed me this photo of his friend's tattoo. It suppose to be "bad boy" in Chinese (壞男孩), except the order of last two characters has been reversed.
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4 comments:

  1. MarkJanuary 4, 2006 at 2:14 PM

    Occasionally you can reverse the words without twisting the meaning and this probably is one of them. The tattoo artist probably copied this phrase from some song lyrics that reversed the words so it rhymes or goes better. BTW, you site is fun. Good job.

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  2. VincciJanuary 4, 2006 at 11:20 PM

    Mark: No, this really isn't one of those incidences... the phrase doesn't make sense with those words reversed.

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  3. zyob2nemJanuary 7, 2006 at 6:28 PM

    Seriously Mark, get with it.

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 15, 2006 at 1:56 PM

    In British slang, "yob" means "hooligan" - it comes from reversing "boy", so it's literally "backwards boy"

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