Post #237949 by freddiefreelance on Thu, Jun 15, 2006 9:39 AM

On 2006-06-15 08:05, Swanky wrote:
This I see all too often in tattoos. More tattoos people say they don't care for or would change or never have done to begin with. Tattoos of Chinese and Arabic script by people who cannot read them themselves. They assume they know what it says and that it was drawn correctly. Does that little curl make it a different letter? Who knows?

Like Britney Spears thinking she got a tattoo that said she was "Mysterious" in Kanji, but it turned to say she's "Strange." Link to story. Or NBA-star Shawn Marion thinking he got his nickname, "The Matrix," on his leg and ending up with "demon filled with mothballs" instead. Or David Beckham having his wife's name mispelled in Hindi on his arm ("Vihctoria"? oops!). Or Tom Cruise & Katie Holmes naming their Daughter Suri because it means "Princess" in Hebrew (I believe it really means "Go Away" in an insulting manner? Swanky, Ran, could you verify?).

Definitely ask several speakers of Hawai'ian first, maybe one of the Profs in the Center for Hawaiian Studies at U of H?