to: tiangotlost@gmail.com
date: Sat, Feb 13, 2016 at 7:27 PM
subject: Short fat rocker
Hey, reading your blog has had me in hysterics for a while now so I thought I would contribute. I got the following tattoo from a friend of mine who had just started learning to tattoo, he said pick something unique so I Google translated the handle if my email address in to simplified Chinese. I like it and care not a bit if it us complete gibberish, as it is still a unique tattoo. Just thought you might Like a look. Cheers
Technically correct, but context is wrong.
Tattoo says "short, fat/adipose, mechanical curved handle"
OMG, this is hilarious!
ReplyDeleteThe third compound, 搖桿, actually means "joystick."
The second one, which should have read 胖子 for "fatty," is instead a direct rendering of "adipose," as you correctly noted, making it especially hilarious.
It would be better if he tattooed it as "搖滾矮冬瓜" ("矮冬瓜" being an idiomatic expressions of " a short fatso). However even that may generate some laughs, but at least it's intended.
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