Friday, September 29, 2006

"Daisy"

Few days ago I received an email from an U. S. Navy recruiter in Jacksonville, Florida, asking me to translate this tattoo of a new recruit for him.

The new recruit claimed that his tattoo means “Daisy” in Chinese.



I tried my best to decipher it, and then I realized the “characters” are just English alphabets that made to mimic the “Chinese-look”. Here are some similar fonts.

Apparently Mr. “Daisy” is not the only person that got fooled by this font type, here are two more:


http://www.bmezine.com/tattoo/A60919/high/bmepb355617.jpg



http://www.bmezine.com/tattoo/A60927/high/bmepb363248.jpg