Associated Press: Lost in Translation
http://asap.ap.org/stories/199840.s
Stephanie Hoo of Associated Press has written a piece about Hanzi Smatter called "Lost in Translation, Are you SURE that Chinese tattoo means what you think it means?".
Thanks!
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"Death Wish"
http://www.painlesswayne.com/SCREENSAVER/KANJI%20WRISTS.jpg
This young man wanted "death wish" (or "death" and "desire") to be tattooed on the insides of his wrists. 死 (death) is missing one dot, and 欲 (desire) has been completely butchered.
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"Katherine"
http://www.bmezine.com/tattoo/A51108/high/bmepb162106.jpg
凯瑟琳 is the Chinese phonetic translation of English name "Katherine". The owner has submitted a mirrored photo to Shannon Larratt and BMEzine.com, plus the last character is incorrectly done.
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Tom Cruise Increases his Charitable Endeavors
Tom Cruise just announced that his sister, Lee Anne DeVette, who has run much of his PR and marketing activities over the last several years, will take over the operations and planned expansion of Tom's charitable work: Cruise will go with pro
Asian Font Gibberish
According to reader “Quaz”:
“It is a picture of a tattoo taken by some racist, who apparently just downloaded an ‘Asian’ font from the Internet, wrote ‘SAY NO TO NIGGERS’ with that font and let somebody to tattoo it in his back. Of course, since languages don't work that way - which apparently is too much to comprehend for our little white supremacist here - the message is completely incomprehensible, as it actually is just finish with a strange font.”
The tattoo is complete gibberish.
Update: The tattoo shown here is suppose to be Finnish of “SANO EI LAKUPEKOILLE”, which is the English equivalent for “say no to niggers”. The owner of the tattoo used an “Asian” font to mimic the alphabets. What the fool did not realize is that the Chinese do not use alphabets. Way to show your racial superiority by using another culture's language.
Racists are idiots.
Einstein Wants to Know
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Ultimate Mandarin Chinese
Textbook is one of the basic tools for someone to learn a foreign language. When there are typos in a beginning-intermediate level Chinese textbook, usually students would assume they are “correct” and move on.
I wonder how the editors of “Ultimate Mandarin Chinese” would feel after reading this post, especially when the slogan on its cover says “The Most Complete and Up-to-Date Program Available”.
How about recheck your book with a dictionary?
人 = person
入 = enter
John Travolta and Kelly Preston
John and Kelly wowed Scientologists at the anniversary of the founding of the International Association of Scientologists by jumping on stage and dancing to the soul classic "Stand By Me." They did a lot more than that too, presenting checks for donations to various charities: Travolta dance stuns churchgoers
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