Tattoo insight

I always think it's dicey when a person gets a tattoo in a language of which they're not a native speaker.

Downtown, I see the occasional person with a Chinese character, or some Gaelic saying, written on their arm or back.


It'd be mighty embarrassing, if a misplaced accent mark or pen stroke completely changed the meaning of the word or phrase you had permanently inscribed upon your body:

"Yeah, my tattoo says 'Brave Like a King'."

"Umm -- actually... the tattoo artist missed a stroke here -- and made this one too curvy. So it actually says 'Poops Like a Carp'."


Doh.


--GG