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Comment on LPT: Never get a tattoo in a language that you don't understand

captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Wasn’t a tattoo, but a motorcycle decal. This dude had a Kawasaki crotch rocket with five kanji characters on it. Posted it to a forum, and this weeb says “lol where’d you get that?” dude answers all defensively “From the mall, why?” Weeb says “It says pig bird pig lizard dog.” “No dude, it says N-I-N-J-A.” He thought kanji characters translated directly to the latin alphabet.

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Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
豕鳥豕蜴犬

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Resistentialism@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Damn, I kinda wanna play my English ninja wkth the Japanese word for ninja. But I do not want to end up like that.

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FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Wait did the characters look like the letters for ninja or was it the (I’m assuming Japanese) equivalent of the letter n then I and so on

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- captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I don’t precisely remember, I’m recalling a forum post I read at least a decade ago, but I do recall that he had at least tried to literally translate the letters “NINJA” to Asian text beyond just picking some McDojo font. I don’t know if he had attempted to find kanji characters that looked relatively like latin letters or if someone convinced him that “This one means N” or something.
  
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