Foreigners looking like fools with gobbledygook tattoos

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japantimesKoi itai (love hurts). Sekira (stark naked). Kuso (s**t). Are these the sort of expressions you'd want permanently etched into a visible portion of your epidermis? Probably not. But as San Francisco-based columnist Tomohiro Machiyama writes in Cyzo, growing numbers of Americans are arranging to have kanji (Sino-Japanese ideographs) tattooed on their bodies, with results that range from the incomprehensible to the hilarious. Read more... (http://search.japantimes.co .jp/cgi-bin/fd20061231t3.html)

[puting tainga]

Does anyone dito sa TF have tatoo?
Just curious.



If it has kanji, we’ll read it for you.

[infinite_trial]

i'm also curious if there are any japanese who has an engrish tattoo :D

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Isa pang related na article (http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/04/04/features/tatoo.php). :)

[docomo]

Tattoo's can look very cool... The fact that some people just get a tattoo, for no reason and then regretting it later.. I wonder how would it look like when your 90 old and wrinkled.. lol..:p

[infinite_trial]

i have to give one comment again re: britney spears' tattoo...it suits her so i don't think she needs to get rid of it haha

[puting tainga]

The K-1 perpetual loser Akebono, a former sumo champion, has a tattoo on his arm saying “YOKOZUNA”
I don’t like that tattoo, for I feel like it is disgracing the authority of the title and history of sumo.

Maybe he intentionally did it in alphabet, rather than kanji, on the pretext 横綱　and Yokozuna was different.


(Medyo OT po.....)

In fact, if you want to input it (at least by IME), Yokozuna becomes 横砂、a non-existent word, and Yokoduna must be input to display 横綱.

Because the initial pronunciation of 綱 is tsuna, not suna, it must be like that.

Since current pronunciation of づ　is zu, the ordinary spelling in English is Yokozuna.
For that sense, Akebono is not wrong.

The disappearance of the sound du (as in do in English) can be attributed to the adoption of “dental t and d” by recent Japanese, rather than “alveolar t and d” the original Korean or Chinese conquerors used. (This ended by 3 AD, a theory most Korean and Japanese refuse to accept. I have studied both Korean and Japanese and amazed at the similarity of the grammar and a lot of similar sounding words, though the number of vowels is 8 in Korean. However, numerous documents record the use of 8 vowels in ancient Japanese literature, such as Man-yo-shu. This can be explained by mother-child language learning. Inter-marriage, (perhaps abduction and rape included) had taken place between the conquers and native widows and women. Since most current Japanese can say du, they are not physically incapable of saying that sound. They just got deprived of practicing that sound.

[Raiden]

i have to give one comment again re: britney spears' tattoo...it suits her so i don't think she needs to get rid of it haha
Britney's Tramp Stamp?

I'm thinking about getting those Confucian proverbs tattoo either in Hanzi or Kanji.

How do you write in Kanji; "Sleep with itchy @ss, wake up with smelly finger?" :confused:

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Raiden,
One of my white buddies have several "funky" kanji tattoos on his left leg and butt. I asked him to show his tattoos to my wife and my mother inlaw and they nearly died of laughing. First he planned to get his tattoos earased but he also learned that his funky tattoos are his "free ticket" to get J-chics. I've seen him flashing his funky tattoos to every nice J-chic he meets and he really does get lucky.
Maybe its time for me to get a really funky kanji tattoo on my forehead just to get the scores even :D

[Raiden]

Maybe its time for me to get a really funky kanji tattoo on my forehead just to get the scores even :D
Check this out, man.
I guess it means, "Property of Raiden" http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/style_emoticons/default/naughty.gif (javascript:add_smil ie()

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o88/xnylier/Angelina.jpg

[chococat]

tattoos are cool for some, but not for me. i think it just looks dirty. :p

i saw one pinoy with a tattoo on his wrist...it's the kanji for 'onna'. haha! i sure hope it was just henna or else :rolleyes:

[bianca marie]

Does anyone dito sa TF have tatoo?
Just curious.



If it has kanji, we’ll read it for you.

I do... I got 3 tattoos in different parts of my body.:D But each one of my tattoos has a meaning to me.

[TR250]

I do... I got 3 tattoos in different parts of my body.:D But each one of my tattoos has a meaning to me.

The 4th tattoo will be TR250 I guess??? :D (joke-joke)

[bianca marie]

The 4th tattoo will be TR250 I guess??? :D (joke-joke)


Yes! i'll have your name tattooed across my belly.:D

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Yes! i'll have your name tattooed across my belly.:D

& I'll have yours... tattooed on my forehead :D

[bianca marie]

& I'll have yours... tattooed on my forehead :D


Forehead is not a good spot you know...:p

[TR250]

Forehead is not a good spot you know...:p

I'm a fool for loooove lady :D

[bianca marie]

I'm a fool for loooove lady :D


OOOHHH... SOOOOO Sweet!:D

[aeroguy30]

I got my ex wife name etched on my left chest below a single red rose... Stuck with it for 12 years haven't remove it yet... :(:confused: sentimental reasons probably :):rolleyes:

[bianca marie]

I got my ex wife name etched on my left chest below a single red rose... Stuck with it for 12 years haven't remove it yet... :(:confused: sentimental reasons probably :):rolleyes:

my first tattoo is unicorn on my right shoulder blade, second i got a flower in my right ankle, the third one i just got last Dec. 27, 06 word strenght in chinese writing on my inner left forearm.:p I don't really want to get any name cuz i might regret it in the long run. Like what you have., you can remove it by laser if you want.;)

[love0308]

well i think irezumi is cool kung di over decorated ang katawan mo he he! some of my friends have tattoo sa batok nila at ang kanji na gamit is yung utsukushi kanji i think thats cool:) ako nga rin gusto gumaya eh kaya lang ayaw ni hubby:)

[bianca marie]

well i think irezumi is cool kung di over decorated ang katawan mo he he! some of my friends have tattoo sa batok nila at ang kanji na gamit is yung utsukushi kanji i think thats cool:) ako nga rin gusto gumaya eh kaya lang ayaw ni hubby:)

Why ang asawa mo ang nagpapasya para sa iyo? Noon ayaw rin ng Ex BF ko na magpatattoo ako the second time i said it's my body i can F*#* do what i want with it. I told him to piss off. now i got 3.:D your a grown woman right? If he loves you, does'nt matter if you got a hundred tattoo.