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Title: Girl gets chinese tattoo of bf's name, but reads as 'supermarket'
Post by: Tuffty on December 13, 2007, 11:36:54 AM: A TEENAGE girl who had her lover's nickname tattooed onto her stomach found out months after they split up that it actually said "supermarket".

Joanne Raine discovered the mistake after she walked into a Chinese takeaway to find out what the tattoo symbols really meant. (http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/search/display.var.1897982.0.mistake_is_tattoo_much_to_stomach.php)

Well it's people like this that really bring this upon themselves. With no regard to any kind of language gap between English and Chinese, she's now stuck with that marking forever. :lol:
Title: Re: Girl gets chinese tattoo of bf's name, but reads as 'supermarket'
Post by: chokkan 2 on December 13, 2007, 11:46:27 AM: why the hell she doesn't even try to do at least some research before doing that tattoo :lol: LOL but now it's too late ~ LOL ~

ps: that word DOESN'T means supermarket or store or shop .... it's a name for a supermarket or store or shop .

The rough translation for the first 2 characters - "Alliance" or "United"....... and the third character can be translated as "store".

so she DID have a name tattooed at her stomach :lol:
Title: Re: Girl gets chinese tattoo of bf's name, but reads as 'supermarket'
Post by: Guchi_Jnr on December 13, 2007, 12:28:17 PM: This girl is not alone..
My wife and I were relaxing (drinking) in a park one day in Melbourne, and I saw a girl sitting close by with "馬" tattooed on her arm.. Asked the wife if that said "uma", and it did, so then asked the girl why she had "horse" tattooed on her arm..
Girl's face = :O
Title: Re: Girl gets chinese tattoo of bf's name, but reads as 'supermarket'
Post by: Tuffty on December 13, 2007, 01:05:58 PM: Not sure if you guys heard, but here in the UK again, a man recently found out that a Chinese tattoo of his name which he had for 26 years, reads as Coca-Cola instead :lol:
Title: Re: Girl gets chinese tattoo of bf's name, but reads as 'supermarket'
Post by: JFC on December 14, 2007, 12:55:15 AM: Quote from: Guchi_Jnr on December 13, 2007, 12:28:17 PM
My wife and I were relaxing (drinking) in a park one day in Melbourne, and I saw a girl sitting close by with "馬" tattooed on her arm.. Asked the wife if that said "uma", and it did, so then asked the girl why she had "horse" tattooed on her arm..
Girl's face = :O
I know I shouldn't...but

:on lol:
Title: Re: Girl gets chinese tattoo of bf's name, but reads as 'supermarket'
Post by: ~Dan~ on December 14, 2007, 02:19:50 AM: Quote
Miss Raine said: "They had Chinese symbols on the wall. So I picked capital r, capital o and small o, so they were all different."

The Chinese language doesn't work like that does it? I thought they didn't have a phonetic alphabet.
Title: Re: Girl gets chinese tattoo of bf's name, but reads as 'supermarket'
Post by: Foxy Brown on December 14, 2007, 02:25:13 AM: http://www.hanzismatter.com/2006/08/gibberish-asian-font-mystery-solved.html
Title: Re: Girl gets chinese tattoo of bf's name, but reads as 'supermarket'
Post by: chokkan 2 on December 14, 2007, 02:30:04 AM: yep, it doesn't work that way ~

but if you ignore the meaning of the characters, I think it kinda works :lol:

you can get the phonetic "translations" from the characters but with weird meanings LOL

Quote from: Foxy Brown on December 14, 2007, 02:25:13 AM
http://www.hanzismatter.com/2006/08/gibberish-asian-font-mystery-solved.html

why the hell the "fonts" are based on Martial Arts words ??
Title: Re: Girl gets chinese tattoo of bf's name, but reads as 'supermarket'
Post by: shadowstar on December 15, 2007, 03:23:05 PM: Classics like this never get old XD
Title: Re: Girl gets chinese tattoo of bf's name, but reads as 'supermarket'
Post by: Ren on December 17, 2007, 02:24:51 PM: What will we have next? Japanese with random Engrish word tattoed on the forehead? XD Just imagine all the Engrish T-Shirts, but tattoed.
Title: Re: Girl gets chinese tattoo of bf's name, but reads as 'supermarket'
Post by: THUNDERDUCK on December 19, 2007, 03:27:42 AM: lol, non-asians! It looks cool. Do you know what it says though?
Title: Re: Girl gets chinese tattoo of bf's name, but reads as 'supermarket'
Post by: Asmodai on December 19, 2007, 05:26:52 PM: It looks cool? I've thought it's kinda lame. As an aside, Asian people also look lame when they get something tatooed in Russian.
Title: Re: Girl gets chinese tattoo of bf's name, but reads as 'supermarket'
Post by: Tuffty on December 19, 2007, 05:51:19 PM: ^ I'm not speaking for everybody that has a Chinese tattoo, but from the cases I've read about, it's more a case that they think it's spiritual and it means something. But it doesn't help if you don't know what the symbol for your name or Chinese zodiac is and end up getting something that says 'Spicy Tuna Roll' instead XD
Title: Re: Girl gets chinese tattoo of bf's name, but reads as 'supermarket'
Post by: kaminokami2086 on December 19, 2007, 08:07:20 PM: Ignorance is truly bliss. Who the hell would think that roman alphabets translates directly to Chinese or Japanese? Morons, thats who.
Title: Re: Girl gets chinese tattoo of bf's name, but reads as 'supermarket'
Post by: redux on December 19, 2007, 09:02:46 PM: I see someone with something stupid like "sakana" tattooed on themselves just about once every other day.