Sunday, December 30, 2007

New Year's Resolution

For those who are seeking suggestions on new year's resolution, may I suggest stop getting tattoos from these templates?



Especially the infamous "Asian Font" seen here, aka. English alphabet in gibberish Chinese.
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8 comments:

  1. ChrisDecember 30, 2007 at 5:59 PM

    It would help if people would find this site BEFORE they get inked.

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  2. KizDecember 31, 2007 at 8:10 AM

    But then there wouldn't be as much material... KF

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  3. ThePenguinDecember 31, 2007 at 9:54 AM

    Calligraphy isn't really my forte (or even neat handwriting, in any language ;) ) but apart from the hopelessly confused meanings many of the characters - particularly on the sheet on the top left and the one in the bottom centre - are pretty darn ugly.

    My New Year's resolution: to carry around a small camera with which to take photos of hanzi / kanji tattoos.

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  4. DianaJanuary 1, 2008 at 6:38 PM

    Damn. That stuff is shameful. Those characters look like they were drawn by me on my first day of Chinese class. You know, I take that back: even then my writing was probably better looking than that.

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  5. AnonymousJanuary 11, 2008 at 2:58 AM

    LOL... looks like the asian font is never going to stop haunting us.

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  6. UlasJanuary 11, 2008 at 6:42 PM

    Well, taking photos of strangers' tattoos may be kinda scary, for that some people might noy like their picture taken. I had seen a beauty of a jacket once. A triple smatter. At the back of the jacket there were three lines involving Hanzi, Hangul and guess what...Hebrew! I named that "The Ultimate 3H smatter" but alas I had no camera with me, only a cell phone that can take photos...however the wearer was walking and I had to come near her to get a good view, and she might not have been happy with that. I had taken the photo of a boxer short with misused kanji by my cell phone pretending to write a text message. Many stores have a no-photo policy here in Turkey

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  7. AnonymousMarch 11, 2008 at 11:24 PM

    I've seen women with 安 tattooed on them. While in Chinese it may mean "peaceful," it means "cheap" in Japanese. I can't help but grin or laugh when I see that. So funny.

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  8. rubypianoJune 23, 2008 at 11:24 PM

    A meaningful word in Chinese are usually formed by TWO or more Chinese characters. A single character has it's own meaning, but no one else translate the characters each by each.

    Example:
    陳 - It can be a surname
    - It has the meaning of old

    When it is used to form a word, the meaning may vary.
    陳年 - aged
    陳醋 - aged vinegar
    陳舊 - old
    陳述 - describe

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