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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jun-2025 03:58:40 JST Adrianna Tan

   Many things about the Internet have gotten worse but ‘learning that people get tattooed in languages they don’t read, then ask the internet about’ is just something that hasn’t changed

   https://www.reddit.com/r/translator/comments/1lb6in6/japanese_english_what_does_my_tattoo_say/

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jun-2025 04:10:10 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Halla Rempt

     @halla I used to love a blog called hanzi smatter

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     Halla Rempt (halla@kde.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jun-2025 04:10:12 JST Halla Rempt

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     @skinnylatte I remember, in the late eighties, when I had just started to learn Mandarin, seeing a guy with ... peng? what? I guess it was meant to be pengyou, but no, no, no...

     Where did those travesties of hanzi come from?

     Only later did I learn about tattoo example books.