Tattoo Rule No. 12: Beware of Lettering in Foreign Languages Words in foreign languages can look pretty and feminine, but for everyone's sake, do your homework. "Your tattoo artist probably doesn't speak Farsi," says Mayorga. It's your job to quadruple-check the spelling and meaning.
In fact, misspelled and poorly translated tattoos are so common that there are entire blogs dedicated to the matter. The Hanzi Smatter blog, run by a Chinese language expert named Tian, features hundreds of Asian language tattoos gone awry. Tian receives email inquiries from people with Asian language tattoos, asking him to do the translation they should have done before having their skin permanently penned. He says over 90 percent of the emails he receives are about tattoos with obvious mistakes.
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