Advice: Don’t Let Your Kanji Tattoo Get “Lost In Translation”

Don’t Let Your Kanji Tattoo Get “Lost In Translation”

Written by Stephen Munday

Thinking of getting a kanji tattoo or kanji jewelry? Then arm yourself with this information before you buy anything. It may be repparttar

difference between being cool and national humiliation.

What? National humiliation? Well OK, national humiliation is an unlikely outcome, but an article in repparttar 101310 March 1st, 2005 Washington Post Express shows that repparttar 101311 possibility is there. "Lost in Translation" looked at repparttar 101312 real dangers facing repparttar 101313 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

- Weird (tattooed on one B. Spears)

Yes, these are phrases that real people (yes, Britney Spears is a real person) actually have had tattooed into their skin.

To be honest, I am not entirely surprised at these and other errors. After all, I have seen many reversed images of kanji being offered for tattoos, and kanji jewelry that simply did not mean anything like it was supposed to.

One necklace, I remember, had repparttar 101314 kanji for “road” on it - although repparttar 101315 poor owner had been told it meant love. I guess her love hit repparttar 101316 road and didn't come back no more, no more, no more, no more....

As Tian Tang puts it in repparttar 101317 Post:

"People ask, 'I got repparttar 101318 tattoo, can you tell me what this means? And I'm like, 'Why didn't you do this before you got that tattoo?'"

Yes, you would think that would be repparttar 101319 obvious thing to do – especially if you are getting something permanent like a kanji tattoo. So how can you make sure you don’t end up a national laughingstock?

First of all, make sure you know something about repparttar 101320 Japanese language. Check out repparttar 101321 copious information at sites like japanese.about.com and in five minutes you will know more about kanji, hiragana and katakana than most of repparttar 101322 people already walking around with it tattooed into their skin.

Where do real uggs or ugg boots come from?

Written by Michelle Jansen

With ugg boots originating from Australia with at least a century of proof, you would expect this to have a simple answer. It has. But why then is repparttar

buying public being tempted into buying a US product largely manufactured in repparttar 101309

Far East? Ugg, Ug or Ugh boots have been a hit in Australia for as far back as anyone can remember. They’ve warmed repparttar 101310

feet of our drovers, our World War I pilots, our shearers, our surfers and repparttar 101311

general Australian public. Enterprising Australian’s warmed to their global value and have been exporting them at least as far back as repparttar 101312

1960’s with this increasing in repparttar 101313

1970’s.

There is an increasing public misconception that there is only one brand of ugg boot. This myth has been enlarged by repparttar 101314 volumes of misinformation being published on repparttar 101315 Internet and advertising bordering on being misleading.

As is common with any good idea, new businesses crop up and old businesses are bought out by other businesses intent on making an even bigger dollar. The ugg boot phenomenon is no different with various US based companies seeing an opportunity in more recent times. Such was repparttar 101316 opportunity for one of these companies that they have launched a worldwide marketing campaign promoting repparttar 101317 Australian ugg boot. However, just as repparttar 101318 “cowboy boot” is imbedded in US culture, repparttar 101319 “ugg boot” is imbedded in Australian culture. No amount of marketing can take that from repparttar 101320 Aussies who have used repparttar 101321 term “ugg” and “ugg boots” (and various spellings) in their generic form whilst selling them both within and outside Australia for years. More than a century of use validates this with one of repparttar 101322 longest surviving manufacturers hailing from repparttar 101323 east coast of Australia with their founding year being 1933.

The global spread of ugg boots gathered pace in repparttar 101324 late 1960’s when repparttar 101325 surfing fraternity realised just how warm they were. Surfers, by their very nature were itinerant, chasing repparttar 101326 world’s best waves, so along with their surfboards, they took their humble Australian ugg boots. Such was repparttar 101327 popularity of ugg boots in surfing circles that manufacturers and retailers advertised in major world surfing publications with zest. A look through Yellow Page directories during those decades yields dozens of manufacturers all selling uggs.

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