Two feet. Two girls. Two unknown Hebrew somethings.
This Hebrew tattoo begins with a Mem Sofit (a letter that only goes at the end of a word) which immediately renders it incorrect. The rest of it seems to be random letters.
Ideas, anyone?
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
There's Some Gibberish on your Foot
I've stumbled on some fresh bad Hebrew ink today, and here it is for your viewing pleasure:
Two feet. Two girls. Two unknown Hebrew somethings.
This Hebrew tattoo begins with a Mem Sofit (a letter that only goes at the end of a word) which immediately renders it incorrect. The rest of it seems to be random letters.
Ideas, anyone?
Two feet. Two girls. Two unknown Hebrew somethings.
This Hebrew tattoo begins with a Mem Sofit (a letter that only goes at the end of a word) which immediately renders it incorrect. The rest of it seems to be random letters.
Ideas, anyone?
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maybe water with the final letter magically moved to the beginning? or smile (transliterated) with the final Lamed removed and the Samech changed to Mem Sofit?
ReplyDeleteI think the first letter could have been intended as a samech. I read this is "Sammy".
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's supposed to be a Samech and it wants to say "Sammy"?
ReplyDeleteI got nothin'.
even as a Samech, it still says Smey (or something similar). Sammy will be spelled with only one Yud, possibly with an Alef.
ReplyDeletePerhaps it's סמיי - My Drugs ;)
ReplyDeleteAt first I thought Sammy...but now I'm thinking dyslexic "Same same" like this famous t-shirt that is very popular in Thailand (where Hebrew is popular too.) http://www.tshirts.in/xtees/mens-tshirt_mt00290/same-same-but-different-t-shirts.htm
ReplyDeleteWhat's my prize?
Trying to read it backwards, that's yud yud then is that a mem or a zayin-chaf, or a vav-chaf, then mem-sofit.
ReplyDeleteIf it's yud yud mem mem-sofit, we've got James or maybe Jamies (Jamie-em) written backwards. (Two girls named Jamie?)
maybe they meant "samui" as in hidden.
ReplyDeletemommy.
ReplyDeletei think it says mommy.
that's what my gut says.
and no, i do not have mommy tattooed on my gut...
I actually think they wanted to write the name 'May' and just used double Mems (i guess they looked at a letter chart and saw both Mem and Mem Sofit under the M sound, so maybe they thought that those two letters combined make the sound they wanted or something like that)
ReplyDeleteI think the first letter is a samech, but the second letter is not a mem, but rather two letters put a little too close together - caf and zayin. Followed up by two yuds. Most likely there were trying to phonetically spell out "Sexy"
ReplyDeletemaybe it's סמיי like as in SEMI-finales...
ReplyDeletegreat blog, though.
I think the first letter was intended to be a
ReplyDelete"samech" , followed by "kaf" - "sayin" - "yud" - "yud", and thus the word was meant to be "sexy"
Trying to say James, but they did it on some program that didn't do r>l properly.
ReplyDeleteMaybe 'Mommy', but then that wouldn't really explain the mem sofit at the begining, and THEN the regular mem. If they knew the difference, why'd they use it improperly? So I'm going to go with 'Sammy' though that renders this a whole new kind of stupid.
ReplyDeletemaybe samui like an undercover cop
ReplyDeleteסמוי
haha but the closest rendition of whats written there is probably sammy but i dont get it...
I vote for a truly botched up version of "sexy" (סכזיי) since what are the chances of two women mispelling "Sammy" or "Mommy" the same way and putting it on their foot? Not a very good spelling, and probably from the same Tattoo shop, which probably has it advertised in their window.
ReplyDeletethe double-yod makes it look yiddish to me. but dunno what it's supposed to mean.
ReplyDeletei think maybe it's supposed to be ים - sea.
ReplyDeletethe doubling of the mem to both final and regular could be caused by a misuse of a bad table, like in the case of poor קעללינן. the doubling of the yod could stem from said bad table trying to distinguish between vowel marking yod (i) and consonant yod (y), a difference which in un-punctuated hebrew is sometimes expressed by doubling (but not in this case). then it was all rendered backwards.
it is for sure sexy just spelled wrong and the caf and zyin too closs
ReplyDeletedefinitely supposed to be sexy
ReplyDeleteAre they from Wisconsin? If so, it could be a rendering of "Skonny," where the first is a samekh, a khaf (I know it should be a qof) and a too-close vav. Then there's an extra yod.
ReplyDeleteThis people need to learn some Hebrew before they do something permanent!
ReplyDeleteGood stuff! Keep up the good work on posts like this one.......I enjoyed it.
ReplyDeleteThis must be intended as "mayim" (water). Sometimes when you use Google translate and try to copy the result, this kind of thing happens. Yikes.
ReplyDeleteJames.
ReplyDeleteThey just got it backwards.
maybe they met some israeli guy that called them מאמי and then they used double M in the wrong way, probably thought that the M SOFIT is a capital letter, and used it in the begining very very wrongly...
ReplyDeletethe double YOD
giess they are just realy realy stupid....
Hi,
ReplyDeleteI want to get a tattoo in Hebrew, nothing in life is impossible. Will you be able to transalate? Thanks