Tattoos In A Foreign Language...  

no.no way.
check out the hanzi smatter website-the guy is a native speaker and he has a whole collection of misspelled and wrong meaning kanji.

my favorite has to be the girl with "explosive diarrhea" tattooed on her.
supposedly she knew what it said,but still.

I think if I was him I would not want to get to intimate with a Japanese girl, he might find out that he was had. Or get someone who could read Japanese to interpret it for him. Myself I would be too embarrassed to have someone put a tattoo that near my private parts, unless of course it was my girlfriend or wife.

First of all, I would never get a tattoo at all. Not worth the pain! And I don't think they look good when you get older and still have them.

Second, to get one and not know for sure what it says is funny :) I bet there are tattoo artists out there who have gotten away with messing with other people's tattoos. However I would hope if you go to a reputable place that they wouldn't do anything wrong b/c they wouldn't want it to come back and ruin their reputation.

But so many people will go to the cheapest guy to get a tattoo so in that case, I'd be worried.

This reminds me of a television program that featured some wildly popular new tee shirts that were imported. They had Chinese (I think) characters on them, really large, center front. The kids all thought they were neat. It turns out that all that was on the shirt was the size, S, M, L, XL. At least this was not a permanent label but was on a shirt that could be taken off. I would not have anything tattooed on me. I would certainly get the meaning corroborated if it was a foreign language. Funny.

Maybe it said "sucker"?
My nephew has one that reads "Carpe Diem" both right side up and upside down.
I'm not sure I'd get a tattoo, but if I ever did, I'd make darn sure that I knew what it said!

I wouldn't.
It might very well be my name phonetically and still be a swear word.
My daughter likes those sites that show products from the orient with European wording and some of them are terrible innuendo but not meant to be anything particularly rude.
Sweets and snacks mostly but even shop names sometimes or names on T shirts.

Before I felt like Sarah I wanted to get Sarah written in Hebrew. But I Checked the spelling. I would research Anything I wanted to get as a tattoo. ps. Now I just want to get my Avatar as a tattoo.

Hi Twoey

I do have some tattoo's but never would I ever have my name or anyone else's name on my body, the ones I do have all have a meaning to me and are not just a pattern but as for names there are a few friends of mine who have but now regret it. So in all my answer is 'no' I wouldn't have mine or anyone elses name in whatever language tatooed on me....LoLo

I don't understand why anyone would get a tattoo in the first place, other than maybe eyebrows if they never grew back after chemo.

I wouldn't have a tatto of any kind. I don't blame anyone for getting them if they want them but i think when they cover their boby up w/them it's gross.