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| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5671 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes  Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 1 of 9 28 January 2010 at 2:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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Some of these Pseudo-Latin Tattoos left me near speechless: Edited by Splog on 28 January 2010 at 2:52pm 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| GauchoBoaCepa Triglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5421 days ago 172 posts - 199 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish | Message 2 of 9 28 January 2010 at 3:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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You must have read my mind....I thought of posting a thread like this....
I've been thinking of putting on tatoos in other languages even those I'm not studying at the moment.....for example, in Russian and Mandarin...some phrases........or in Spanish...... As for your website, some pics lef me speechless to....thanks. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Astrophel Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5734 days ago 157 posts - 345 votes Speaks: English*, Latin, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Cantonese, Polish, Sanskrit, Cherokee | Message 3 of 9 28 January 2010 at 4:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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At least the "Be real" and "Drive it like you stole it" folks bothered to write a Classics department to make sure it was right. I can respect that. And honestly, have pity on the people who who use online translators for tattoos, because in their ignorance about how language works, they trusted the machine to get it right, as one would trust a calculator to get the correct sum.
What I really can't stand is how people who don't understand Latin or how it works at all insist on translating phrases like this and acting like they know the language, and nobody ever calls them out because Latin is such an uncommon language. If you want to see more bad tattoos go to http://hanzismatter.com. Chinese characters are so easy to abuse! Edited by Astrophel on 28 January 2010 at 4:53pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5424 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 4 of 9 28 January 2010 at 11:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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I would only get a tattoo in a foreign tongue if I could translate it myself.
Also if I were a tattoo artist (something I have neither the skill nor passion to do) I'd screw with people's tattoos if they wanted something in a foreign language. You think your Japanese tattoo says "Be peaceful to your fellow man?" Too bad I made it say "I was violated by a goat when I was younger." 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Gusutafu Senior Member Sweden Joined 5523 days ago 655 posts - 1039 votes Speaks: Swedish* | Message 5 of 9 29 January 2010 at 12:51am | IP Logged | ||
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It's pretty amazing that two people have the same 90's movie quote, equally mistranslated into Latin. Not only were two "of"s left in, the word "valley" was too! Edited by Gusutafu on 29 January 2010 at 12:51am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| canada38 Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5497 days ago 304 posts - 417 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Japanese | Message 6 of 9 29 January 2010 at 1:21am | IP Logged | ||
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Pathetic.
Grammatical errors are somewhat forgivable and an honest fault(albeit incredibly stupid!) Valley and of are not LOL! I really hope to meet one of these people some day :P Edited by canada38 on 29 January 2010 at 1:22am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ennime Tetraglot Senior Member South Africa universityofbrokengl Joined 5906 days ago 397 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English, Dutch*, Esperanto, Afrikaans Studies: Xhosa, French, Korean, Portuguese, Zulu | Message 8 of 9 01 February 2010 at 3:36pm | IP Logged | ||
and with this I am pleased to direct you to hanzismatter.com ^_^ 1 person has voted this message useful |
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