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| strikingstar Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5173 days ago 292 posts - 444 votes  Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Cantonese, Swahili Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written) | Message 9 of 18 01 April 2011 at 7:48am | IP Logged | |||||
How about
or something along the likes of 
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| aru-aru Triglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 6457 days ago 244 posts - 331 votes Speaks: Latvian*, English, Russian | Message 10 of 18 01 April 2011 at 10:00am | IP Logged | |||||
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Get inspiration from these people:
http://hanzismatter.blogspot.com/ As long as it's Asian, it's so damn cool what ever it is. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5034 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 11 of 18 01 April 2011 at 5:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
I had to look this up to understand, but now that I know, I think this is very funny. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| JW Hexaglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/egw Joined 6122 days ago 1802 posts - 2011 votes 22 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian | Message 12 of 18 01 April 2011 at 7:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
Kudos to you for having looked it up--I was wondering if anyone would... I am older than most people on the forum and it is striking to me how tatoos have gone from being only for those in prison or the navy to being something that most young people have... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Meelämmchen Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5083 days ago 214 posts - 249 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Modern Hebrew | Message 13 of 18 02 April 2011 at 10:38am | IP Logged | |||||
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JW, this is striking to see indeed. But what does the Hebrew mean? Something with tattoo? Obviously in Hebrew "to tattoo" is meaning also "to destroy, ruin." Were you speaking of this ambiguity?
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| etracher Triglot Groupie Italy Joined 5334 days ago 92 posts - 180 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish Studies: Modern Hebrew, Russian, Latvian | Message 14 of 18 02 April 2011 at 1:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
It's from Leviticus and it is a prohibition against tattoos. Very clever, JW. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| JW Hexaglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/egw Joined 6122 days ago 1802 posts - 2011 votes 22 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian | Message 15 of 18 02 April 2011 at 6:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yes, it is specifically from Leviticus 19:28 which reads: ושרט לנפש לא תתנו בבשרכם וכתבת קעקע לא תתנו בכם אני יהוה You shall not make any cuts in your body for the dead nor make any tattoo marks on yourselves: I am the LORD. קעקע (qaqa) is a hapax legomenon (a word occurring only once) in the Hebrew Bible which means: a mark branded in the skin, incision, imprint, tatoo, mark. The Bilingual Jewish Elders tranlsated this word as στίγμα (stigma) in the Greek of the Septuagint and this word has been taken directly into English "stigma." כתבת (ketobet) is another hapax legomenon in the Hebrew Bible which means: an impression, inscription, mark. The Septuagint translators rendered this as γράμμα meaning letters or writing. Thus כתבת קעקע (ketobet qaqa) = tatoo marks. There are two reasons for the prohibition: 1. In the ancient world, such tatoo marks were used in the worship of idols with the symbol and/or the name of the idol imprinted on the body. 2. This was considered as a disfigurement of the body, and thus of God's workmanship, since Man was created in the image of God. I find it generally very useful to drill down on fashions and trends and investigate their origins. Many of them go back to ancient times and often have links to practices with which I do not wish to be associated. Edited by JW on 02 April 2011 at 6:38pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5866 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish | Message 16 of 18 02 April 2011 at 11:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Chinese script that translates to:
"This jerk asked me how to write 'I speak fluent Chinese'" 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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