Article: Don?t Let Your Kanji Tattoo Get ?lost In Translation?
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Don?t Let Your Kanji Tattoo Get ?lost In Translation?
Thinking of getting a kanji tattoo or kanji jewelry? Then arm yourself with this information before you buy anything. It may be the difference between being cool and national humiliation.
What? National humiliation? Well OK, national humiliation is an unlikely outcome, but an article in the March 1st, 2005 Washington Post Express shows that the possibility is there. "Lost in Translation" looked at the real dangers facing the unwary consumers who get kanji tattoos.
I am not joking when I say ?real dangers?. But neither am I referring to unhygenic tattooing practices. What I am talking about is toe-curlingly appalling linguistic blunders. Specifically, I mean kanji combinations like these:
Extremely Military Affairs Stopping
Crazy Diarrhea<...
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