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Reader Eric C. emailed me this ad for aussieBum underwear.
The top two characters appeared to me as mirrored 决心 ("determination"). I have no idea what the reference of two characters below, 伐大, is about. 伐 means "[to] cut down", and 大 means "big".
Oh dear...
I think the model has unintentionally tattooed himself with "determined to cut down something big".
Update: I found a photo of the same male model via Google, who is he?
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The top two characters appeared to me as mirrored 决心 ("determination"). I have no idea what the reference of two characters below, 伐大, is about. 伐 means "[to] cut down", and 大 means "big".
Oh dear...
I think the model has unintentionally tattooed himself with "determined to cut down something big".
Update: I found a photo of the same male model via Google, who is he?
posted by tian at
7:12 PM
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And just to add some flavor: What this blog always calls "mirrored", with admirable restraint and delicacy, is what most of us would call "hilariously reversed by a tattoo 'artist' even more clueless about hanzi than the rest of the ink-wielding illiterati".
It's utterly amazing that 'artists' and victims alike refuse to do a lick of research before subjecting skin to permanent defacing. Keep up the good work in exposing this goofiness, Tian!
@traveler
you actually thought about the possibility that the actual photographer mirrored the image during the post-processing phase ???
@Anonymous
If they reversed the image the lettering on the waistband of his shorts would be reversed too.
Perhaps he is called 'Ford' ? Just guessing....
In this case two of the characters would be backwards no matter which way the photo was faced.
伐 can mean "step" like in “步伐”。
so 伐大 means big step or walk in stride. it might be japanese as well
if he were just some twat in a bar I'd just chuckle and move on, but this guy is a model. if I thought I could make a living by stripping down and flashing my bod to the world I'd be a lot more careful about what got permanently inked on my skin.
... although it doesn't exactly seem to be destroying his career...
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I think it's Jonathan from Make Me a Supermodel. I seem to recall him having a pseudo-asian tattoo. It's on tonight if you want to check it out (I have a hot date)
http://www.bravotv.com/make-me-a-supermodel/bio/jonathan
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