Update on my tattoo

**flamepony12** · 10-17-2006, 09:51 PM

hahah yes, the story takes place in Japan & geishas are Japanese. But for some reason, all of the actors in that movie are Chinese!

**buttercup132** · 10-17-2006, 09:56 PM

Originally Posted by flamepony12

hahah yes, the story takes place in Japan & geishas are Japanese. But for some reason, all of the actors in that movie are Chinese!

I honestly cant tell the difference by thier looks or writting. I bet people from those countries think the same about American and Canadians (cant tell the difference of them either).
But I do like thier writting I think its very artistic and I think the little girl in the movie is adorable.

**Tralee** · 10-17-2006, 10:00 PM

Japanese have three alphabets, Kanji, Katakana, and Hiragana. Kanji uses Chinese characters and there are over 10,000 characters.

I like your idea for the tattoo!

**flamepony12** · 10-17-2006, 11:07 PM

Originally Posted by buttercup132

I honestly cant tell the difference by thier looks or writting. I bet people from those countries think the same about American and Canadians (cant tell the difference of them either).
But I do like thier writting I think its very artistic and I think the little girl in the movie is adorable.

I think Japanese writing is a bit more artistic looking, in my opinion

**BC_MoM** · 10-17-2006, 11:45 PM

I loved the movie Memoirs of a Geisha!

Nice choice for a tattoo - hope ya get it!

**Giselle** · 10-17-2006, 11:46 PM

Chinese:
我爱你 = I love you

Japanese:
私は愛する = I love you

I used an electronic dictionary to translate the Japanese part but I know the Chinese sentence is correct. Japanese characters are much more curvier and rounded. They're also much simpler in terms of how many strokes there are per word. I thought it was also interesting to note how similar "love" is in both languages

**buttercup132** · 10-18-2006, 07:20 AM

They both are just boxes.

**Suki Wingy** · 10-18-2006, 06:28 PM

I'm not so big on foreign words for tattoos but I do like the idea. I like the tiger a lot. I'm thinking of getting a variation of this airbrush tat stencil on centered on my upper back (below the neck)

I also think I want a cougar somewhere.

**buttercup132** · 10-18-2006, 06:54 PM

Originally Posted by Suki Wingy

I'm not so big on foreign words for tattoos but I do like the idea. I like the tiger a lot. I'm thinking of getting a variation of this airbrush tat stencil on centered on my upper back (below the neck)

I also think I want a cougar somewhere.

That would look really cool!

**pnance** · 10-19-2006, 12:36 AM

Originally Posted by Suki Wingy

I'm not so big on foreign words for tattoos but I do like the idea. I like the tiger a lot. I'm thinking of getting a variation of this airbrush tat stencil on centered on my upper back (below the neck)

I also think I want a cougar somewhere.

Nice picture, but I'll warn you it will probably be fairly large. I just had a tatoo of a tiger done a few months ago. Because of where I put it I needed something smaller so just went for the head. I had a few options that I went in with, but the artist told me because of the detail on the tiger it's difficult to get a small good one. I have to admit he knew what he was talking about, I did colored so it looks almost real.

**Giselle** · 10-19-2006, 01:01 AM

Originally Posted by buttercup132

They both are just boxes.

Your computer can't read the characters. I'm not sure how to work around that, but maybe some other computer saavy person will know?

**BC_MoM** · 10-19-2006, 02:02 AM

Hope this is alright:

**Lilith Cherry** · 10-19-2006, 02:06 AM

Using IE? Go to View on the tool bar click and on the drop down list click on encoding; on this list click on Chinese Simplified and it will show what Giselle wrote in Chinese.