... then don't trust someone you just met to make it a permanent addition to your body!
First there was engrish.com, dedicated to the abuse of the English language by (mostly) Japanese speakers.
Now there's Hanzi Smatter, a compendium of Westerners' misuse of Chinese characters.
Predictably, most of it seems to revolve around tattoos -- people who thought it would be 'cool' or 'mystical' to get a tattoo in Chinese and ended up with more than they bargained for. Case in point: the guy in their very first entry -- who ended up in the newspaper because he thought he was getting a tattoo that said "Love, Honor, and Obey", but got a tattoo that said "At the end of the day, this is an ugly boy" instead.
Posted by Kevin at December 5, 2004 01:01 AM