I got a bad name - without knowing!

[Jike Ichi]

Yeah I\'m wiser now.
Friends ask for advice before the start tattooing something with Kanji/Chinese letters. I wouldn\'t tattoo myself a Chinese letter just because it looks good. Afterall its just some kind of alphabet and who tattoos an \"A\" or \"R\" on his body.
I always persuade them not to tattoo a name but rather their chinese zodiac. Which can also be tricky, because then there are old letters used and not the chinese letters used today in language.

I sticked with my name, because most people knew my paintings with that name and graffitti in the end is something about recognizing names. Never thought it would mean something in English. At least referring to the Urban Dictionary....But in there it seems every name is a curse lol

 

[Gilvan Blight]

I say we make a game out of Urban Dictionary. You post up some definitions and people guess your name

Here\'s a few for me:

\"Modern vernacular for the male camel toe. Also referred to as: the moose-knuckle. see male camel toe.\"

\"1. To slowly take over someone else\'s space without them noticing it.

2. To make someone believe you said something or had an idea which wasn\'t originally yours by changing the way the idea is said slightly\"

\"The fillmore district in the Western Addition in San Francisco. Big black neighborhood from post st. to market. Even consists of some west post projects and some Masonic street. \"

\"definition.
i) a male who sleeps / has slept with a lot of females
ii) a male hoe
\"

\"An unattractive male not worth dating. \"

\"The official Hanson fan club\"

\"to eat.\"

\"very cool \"

\"A term used to define an associate, person, homeboy/girl originally used in the DMV(Washington D.C., Maryland, Virginia) area as an alternative to the \"N\" word. \"

\"Someone of a homosexual orientation \"

 

[laurence]

Chinese letters?

Originally posted by Jike Ichi
I wouldn\'t tattoo myself a Chinese letter just because it looks good. Afterall its just some kind of alphabet and who tattoos an \"A\" or \"R\" on his body.

Hi Jike Ichi,

Chinese characters are pictures that represent meaning. Just one Chinese character can mean and symbolize many different things. Also, you won\'t necessarily know how to say a word in Chinese by just looking at the character. That\'s why in China kids have to use Roma (Hanyu) Pinyin to complement the characters so they can verbally say them. In Taiwan, they use a more accurate phonetic system called BoPoMoFo (Zhuyin Fuhao). This is a set of 36 very small stroke phonetic symbols that are placed beside the Chinese characters (no more than 3 at a time) in different combinations to tell you how to pronounce the character accurately. Chinese writing is worlds apart from English alphabet letters. Letters have sound attached to them etc. And, individual letters by themselves generally don\'t have any meaning.

I hope this makes sense. It\'s too early for me and I need some coffee!!

 

[Yramrag]

Yeah same with Japanese. Unless you have all the parts of the word, it really doesn\'t make any sense.
That was what put me off learning Chinese. The inflection on each sound. Japanese makes it a bit easier by using the 3 lettering systems. Although after two years i couldn\'t hear the difference between \"yoka\" or \"yokka\".
Then again they had trouble hearing the difference in \"light\" and \"right\"