from: Jeff L. to: tiangotlost@gmail.com date: Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:44 AM subject: My silly-ass tattoo
Hi Tian!
Very nice blog you have here. I was wondering if you could help me re-translate (hopefully correctly this time) my first ever tattoo!! (surprise!) The top should read "to excel", the inside should read "strength", the outside "to persevere", and the bottom "to find happiness".
from: Carla M. to: tiangotlost@gmail.com date: Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 1:20 PM subject: Could u help me with my tattoo?
Hi,
I have a chinese tattoo and I'm probably the 200000th person who claims your help to know if I'm as stupid as all people who trust their tattoo artist... I had believed during 10 years that my tattoo means an "C" a "K" and an "S"...I'm right?
Thanks!!
Carla is another person with gibberish faux Chinese tattooed on her back.
from: Lindsey O. to: tiangotlost@gmail.com date: Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 11:51 AM subject: tattoo
One of my exes has several tattoos that are either hanzi or kanji, though I am not sure which. I had always wondered if they actually mean what he believes them to, and was able to find a couple of pictures that had two of them (though, unfortunately I couldn't find any of the other one/ones). Those attached are supposed to say "way of the tiger" and "way of the dragon."
Granted these were not high resolution photographs, however 道大虎 and 道大龍 are not exactly "way of the tiger" and "way of the dragon".