[detsaoT]

http://www.hanzismatter.com/

[martin_fierro]

[flixxx]

This is link is to a funny video from a SNL skit about lower back tattoos...


http://www.drtattoff.com/tattoo-skit.php

[Emmett McCarthy]

So many of these tattooed clowns can't spell in English so what difference is it if they can't spell in Chinese? If they want to go around sporting a tattoo that says "I am a prune Danish", that's their business.

[R. Scott]

I had fun with a young lady awhile back. She had a Chinese script tattoo on her arm. Several of us were at the bar reminiscing about our time in various Asian countries when we noticed it. She had also been listening in to our conversation.
We started laughing and talking about the tattoo – I wondered if she could read Chinese. You know how several people can get the same idea at the same time? When she came over we asked if she knew what the tattoo read – before she could answer someone told her it meant “cheap whore”. She left the bar in a hurry.
I wonder if she had it removed. None of us could read Chinese.

[Mr. Jazzy]

Reminds me of the story my son in Afghanistan told me of a Marine who paid one of the locals to stitch the Marines name in the Pashtoon language on the outside of his knit cover, worn in cold weather. One of the sergeants got to the local and paid the guy $20 to stitch the equivalent of "Alpha Hotel" on the cover.

The Marine wore the cap all over the place for about a week, getting all kinds of confused looks until finally he was asked by an Afghani why he had that written on his cover? The Marine said that it was his name. The Afghani told him the truth and finally the secret was out. Lots of laughs and it was taken with no hard feelings.

[Buzwardo]

I've always hoped that some of the strings of character I've seen translate to "I just separated this round eyed fool from a bunch of cash."

[Ignatz]

I usually kid the tramp-stampers I meet by telling them that their lower-back tat translates to "target acquired", lol!

[Steel Wolf]

I see incorrect Chinese tattoos every now and then, which is usually just Chinese looking squiggles, but occasionally real words that aren't what the owners think they are. My all time favorite was when a waitress brough me and my friends at a bar some drinks. One of them pointed out that I spoke Chinese, and asked her to show me her tattoo (which was half concealed by her sleeve).

She smiled and said, 'Sure thing! This one on top means 'pretty' and the one below it means 'girl'. I nodded, with a blank look on my face. As soon as she departed, I turned to the guy on my left and said, "I didn't have the heart to tell her, but she got screwed by whoever did her tattoo. Her tattoo didn't say 'pretty girl'. It said 'ancient horse'."

[Bon mots]

Here is a cool page that deciphers a whole bunch of Chinese tatoos among other things.ZhongWen.com

[SoftballMominVA]

90 pounds for a tatoo

Wearing an insult for life on your skin

Priceless!

[pepperdog]

Asian friend said some of the kids are being tattooed with things like "Stupid White Guy". Serves them right, anyone stupid enough to get a tattoo with a language they can't read deserves whatever they get.

[bella1]

I have a friend who had a Chinese exchange student stay with her a few years ago when everyone was wearing those Chinese lettered shirts from Abercombie and Finch. While they were at a local mall, the student saw a girl wearing one of those shirts and said that the lettering actually said "I am a stupid American". LOL.