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date: Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 2:51 PM
subject: Help with tatoo translation
Hello!
I was reading your blog- I love it! My father got this tattoo and he wont tell anyone what it means. Its been rumored to mean "man with many blessings" or "man with a big stick." Can you tell me what it really means?
Thank you so much!!!
-M
The characters ? & ? mean "eternal" and "rock/stone". Of course, the tattooed phrase is non-sense. However, it is very likely the person got this wanted to "rock forever" if he was into the music scene, or "[to be] stone forever" as a junkie. As many modern day rockstars are both.
?? could also be Japanese names for ???? (Eiseki), ???? (Nagaishi), or ???? (Yonsoku).
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