Comments on: Danielle Lloyd: The Dumbest Hebrew Tattoo Yet!

By: Yael

Yael — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:53:21 +0000

To Dani, what is the phrase you want to translate? Maybe I can help.

By: Dani

Dani — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:35:10 +0000

i’m trying to get a correct hebrew translation fo a tattoo i want. can anybody help?

By: A funny story of my own at Tête-à-Tête-Tête

A funny story of my own at Tête-à-Tête-Tête — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:01:55 +0000

[...] Dumbest Hebrew Tattoo Yet reminds me of a funny story from my own youth. At school, we were given an opportunity to sign up for foreign pen-pals. I don’t know – this had to have been fifth grade or earlier (for my sake, I hope much earlier). [...]

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:51:40 +0000

I was thinking of getting a tattoo saying “Peace of God” but I really don’t want it to come out wrong, any help?

Email me at kpappas622@gmail.com

Thanks

By: Sonya

Sonya — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:38:11 +0000

One of my friends decided to get a Hebrew tattoo on her hip. She told me it translated to “Follower of Christ.” I can not read Hebrew and have been looking on the internet to see if the tattoo says what it says. I believe people should be very careful using the Hebrew language and she needs to know if it is right. Would someone e-mail me the translation of “Follower of Christ” please? Thank you!

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:33:46 +0000

All rather comical!

By: Ava Odoemena

Ava Odoemena — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:18:26 +0000

Evaluating a tattoo by the rules of language is a form of technocratic reductionism equivalent to judging a meal by its content of carbs, proteins and fats. It ignores everything actually relevant to the meal: tastes, aroma, intent of the chef, the setting in which it is enjoyed, the people around at the time and so on.

Tattoos are art and therefore are liberated from the rules of language, even if language is an aspect of the art. That I need to explain this to people who most likely consider themselves intelligent strikes me odd, however, the elements of smug aggression expressed in the entry and some comments may indicate that the critique is not about a “wrong use” of Hebrew, but a front for encoded sexism behind it or another form of primeval dominance behavior. Equally childish encoding as accused, which would ignite the irony of projection.

I observe with worry, the emerging group-fantasy of technocrats, in which they believe that they are a *social* elite.

By: Reut

Reut — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:10:40 +0000

I don’t really understand how the “me” is writtent here. At first I figured the first one accidently used a mem sofit instead of a regular mem, and that the comma is what was supposed to be a yod.
But looking at the second “me”, i can’t figure out what’s that letter there. At first I thought maybe it was yod-vav (you), but everyone says it’s also supposed to be “me”.
The rest of it is very clear to me, though. Somehow I managed to read it right away upon seeing it. The only error in the “only god can judge” part is that in the word “judge” the j is represented with gimel” instead of gimel’, and the second gimel’ like sound is a simple gimel. The pronounciation, though, is correct for someone with an English accent. You can hear the O in the word god and U in judge when someone speaks with a UK accent, so keeping that in mind, the way she wrote “only god can judge” is alright.

By: David Gerard

David Gerard — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:51:10 +0000

It actually says "idiot gentile bimbo". http://tinyurl.com/6zjqj9

By: Pat McCullough

Pat McCullough — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 07:01:47 +0000

Well, only God can judge her.