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Thursday, September 17, 2009

Jeez Chineez: Jerk Face

So I am officially a jerk face. And I'm even more of a jerk face...because I don't really feel bad about what I did.
I told someone their "Chinese" tattoo didn't mean what they CLAIMED it meant. If everyone doesn't know this about me already, I get really heated about Chinese (having grown up in China) and even more so about Chinese tattoos on people who don't speak a lick of Chinese. Now I have plenty of friends with these tattoos...and it's all good. For the most part, I just try to close my eyes and ignore people with Chinese tattoos all together because trying to read them just pisses me off because 99% of the time...it does NOT mean what they truly believe it means. Or better yet. It means NOTHING at all because it's written wrong.
Well...I ran across a gossip blog online while looking for tattoos (practically a daily occurrence...looking for tattoos I mean...) and there it was. The Chinese tattoo and the claimed "meaning." And I just lost it. I said THAT'S IT!! and went and translated it with my trusty online Chinese dictionary (because John's Chinese dictionary was printed in the states...which means it's MISSING half the vocabulary...stupid!! And of course MINE was no where to be found...) to make sure I had the meanings right and then wrote the person and told them I hated to be the bearer of bad news but their tattoo actually meant this that and the other. I can't say I didn't feel extremely smug and smartassy afterward...and a little bad also. And that smug/bad feeling still lingers. But a huge sense of relief also has remained...because I ALWAYS hold this stuff in and I finally just said it how it was and they can take it however they'd like.
So...there's my rant for today. Hopefully someone found it interesting/entertaining/unoffensive.