Friday, January 28, 2005

Pointless Gibberish



From BMEzine's gallery, this is a prime example of someone who obviously did not do enough research or none at all. Not only the entire string of characters are gibberish, several characters are missing important dots,

= expensive, costly, valuable
= endure, bear, suffer; forbear

But they are mixture of Japanese Kanji, Traditional and Simplified versions of Hanzi.

(Traditional Chinese ; Simplified Chinese ) = glory, honor; flourish, prosper
(Traditional Chinese ) = favor, benefit, confer kindness
(Traditional Chinese ) = love, be fond of, like
(Traditiona Chinese ; Simplified Chinese ) = labor, toil, do manual work

Granted, many Kanji and Hanzi are the same characters, but at least try to keep them in a consistant form.

10 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don't see how the characters used are a mix of Japanese Kanji, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese characters. They are all Japanese Kanji characters.

Well, actually, on closer inspection, I can't tell whether the red character is the simplified character, 爱,or the traditional/Japanese character 愛. Which sort of kills my point....

11:07 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Yup. Like you said, "love" is in the simpilfied form. I always wondered about that one - why replace the inside with "friend" in the simplified form? Seems to lessen the impact of the meaning of the character. Seems like I am in need of a history lesson.

11:12 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ahem, speaking of "gibbrish," the correct spelling is "gibberish."

11:19 PM  
Blogger Matt said...

So they are all kanji except for the one that's highlighted in red. That does kind of make sense as a system. The meaning still excapes me though.

1:20 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have to say that this guy sure has a nice back!

(Shame about the tattoos, though... *sigh*)

11:43 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I don't think the tattoos are real..

7:08 PM  
Blogger Jared said...

they're definitely real tattoos. just ugly...

10:47 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Glory, life, wisdom, mutual assistance, health, courage, preciousness, kindness, tolerance, tranquility, love, labor, protection, reason.

Seems like a list of virtues. But it's not well done (it's not even straight along his spine), and the list has no rhyme or reason to it.

7:19 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

lame as the charecters are they are still better then the stupid top hat, wand, and gloves tattoo he has

12:59 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

*vent* Wow that's a shitty job, corny and meaningless. The tattoo is as lame as the person choosing it. Stupid cool wannabe these days...what a loser. Did he think that sticking on Chinese/Japanese/simplified or whatnot characters onto his back really makes him that race? Looking at that makes me so embarrassed that I had to cringe. *end vent*

9:50 PM  

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