Uh oh…
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Wednesday April 30th, 2008 @ 9:31 AM
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“Let all red roses bloom signify that your around”…
By Adam at Electric Haven in Tempe, AZ.
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101 Responses to “Uh oh…”
Whoops.
…I don’t even know where to start.
psychefly on April 30th, 2008 at 9:33 amThat is so depressing, that can’t be fixed!
Boudicca on April 30th, 2008 at 9:34 amJust, ouch.
Stigmatic on April 30th, 2008 at 9:34 amTypical phoenix girl. lol…
bioport on April 30th, 2008 at 9:37 amI thought it said: “Let All Red Signify That Roses Bloom Your Ground.”
I’ve had a couple cover-ups… There must be something that can be done.
Blue on April 30th, 2008 at 9:38 am@ Boudicca I think it can be fixed, but by someone who knows what the bloody hell they’re doing. The end curve thing on the r of your could be made into an E relatively easily, and then it’s just a matter of adding an apostrophe.
MissKat on April 30th, 2008 at 9:38 amOhhh nooo :( I feel so bad, but simple grammar!!! Aw, c’mon :(
Burcu on April 30th, 2008 at 9:42 amughhh as an editor this really kills me…poor girl…
tanya on April 30th, 2008 at 9:45 am:( Typo.
HereKittyKitty on April 30th, 2008 at 9:47 amMe too #5. I was like.. uh.. what? How does this go?
Scarlete on April 30th, 2008 at 9:48 amI know its wrong… I just don’t know where :S
VIckBack on April 30th, 2008 at 9:49 am::sigh:: things like this boggle my mind. not only did she not research it, but the artist didn’t think to, and I am sure there were at least 2 people (if not more) who were present and they didn’t even realize!! besides the fact, that rose looks more like a red lotus flower. to each his own, hopefully she loves it either way.
Kayestar26 on April 30th, 2008 at 9:49 amOoooh noooo…. :(
bettie cracker on April 30th, 2008 at 9:51 ami can’t feel sorry for this person. anyone who puts that little thought into something that will be with her and on her forever deserves what she gets!
Leanna on April 30th, 2008 at 9:54 amWow. Walking grammar error. I agree with Leanna - if you don’t spend enough time thinking about your tattoo to get proper basic grammar, you get what’s coming to you.
Lisa on April 30th, 2008 at 9:58 amhahahahahaha!! she needs to fix it asap.
when in az, go to paolo at divinity tattoos. he did my chest piece and he is amazing!
toothpaste on April 30th, 2008 at 10:03 amIt’s especially tragic because as far as I can tell those are song lyrics… Signs of Betrayal by Suffering So Proud
They’re also missing a “the” if it matters…
Shannon on April 30th, 2008 at 10:03 amUh oh indeed! YOU’RE going to be embarrassed…
Stewart on April 30th, 2008 at 10:04 amWhats wrong with it??????
Shaun on April 30th, 2008 at 10:05 amOOOOOHHH.. “you’re”
madness.
Shaun on April 30th, 2008 at 10:09 amthe blackwork could fix that :}}
pawnbroker on April 30th, 2008 at 10:11 amI have no pity for her. Really, I think “caution: I’m stupid” signs should be mandatory anyways. This one’s a good start.
meaghan on April 30th, 2008 at 10:13 amYeah… I can’t feel sorry for her. So many of these kids are getting “hip” lyrics tattooed on their skin and there are plenty that get burned because of spelling and grammar errors. This is why you go in KNOWING what you want, down to the color and font and all the details.
Kim on April 30th, 2008 at 10:16 amThat’s my worst nightmare.
Rhiannon on April 30th, 2008 at 10:19 amI agree with #14. If you’re able to get a tattoo, you should be able to spell it properly. A shame indeed. It’s otherwise a very pretty chest piece.
Ellie on April 30th, 2008 at 10:21 amIt bothers me when people confuse your and you’re in text messages. I’m glad that’s not my tattoo, but I’m sure she can do something to improve it.
Fourth Grade Rats on April 30th, 2008 at 10:23 amWow, that’s just sad. But yeah, I have to agree with #14 as well.
cirrin on April 30th, 2008 at 10:26 amThat makes me absolutely insane.
Dagny on April 30th, 2008 at 10:27 amGood lord. I kind of agree with the if-you-can’t-spell-you-deserve-it sentiment, but still… ouch!
freedomhangs on April 30th, 2008 at 10:29 amas a journalism major, i feel like i may have just had a seizure
Amy on April 30th, 2008 at 10:35 amGranted it’s an unfortunate error, it’s really not that big of a deal. She probably knows it’s wrong and is either gonna fix it or leave it as is.
Ashe on April 30th, 2008 at 10:40 amEither way, it’s a really nice tattoo and I really like the font (even though the a in ‘around’ looks like a g).
is it jst the YOU’RE thats wrong and im not being thick and missing something?
Tom For Real on April 30th, 2008 at 10:42 ami read it “let all red signify that roses bloom your ground” as well :|
Even without the grammatical/spelling mistake, “Let all red roses bloom signify that you’re around” makes no sense. Maybe if it was “red roses’ bloom,” but even that sounds weird.
cuntcumber on April 30th, 2008 at 10:50 amI’m with someone above, I read it all the way across (Let all red signify that…).
I think typos in tattoos are sad.
lippi on April 30th, 2008 at 10:56 amI would be happy to help her fix it. To keep the flow, (around) might need to be moved to add an (’e) but it shouldn’t be that difficult. It all depends on the ink and how well she would respond to laser treatments: http://www.fadefast.com/
Allen Falkner - Fade Fast Laser Tattoo Removal on April 30th, 2008 at 10:58 amIf it is from the song Sings of Betrayal, it should actually read “Let all the red roses bloom to signify that you’re around.” Ouch.
audente on April 30th, 2008 at 11:05 amI’m with Leanna on this one.
That’s so tragic and depressing :(
Louie on April 30th, 2008 at 11:10 amMaybe she’s not a native English speaker. A good demonstration for all those people who don’t properly research their foreign language tattoos anyway: this is exactly how people react when they see mangled kanji or Arabic or whatever.
Bobb on April 30th, 2008 at 11:13 amPoor thing. Time for some blackwork coverups!
Marshall on April 30th, 2008 at 11:37 amAh, #36, makes a lot more sense now. It doesn’t even fit into her body well… But the font is quite nice
DuckieVamp on April 30th, 2008 at 11:43 amFuck y’all. Tattoos with typos are cooler then gay emo lyrics without typos. If she can laugh it off she’s primo wife material.
bfree on April 30th, 2008 at 12:03 pmThat’s deeply worrying…Have schools stopped teaching children anything about language these days?
Liz on April 30th, 2008 at 12:14 pmThat’s quite sad, bobb does bring up a very interesting point though.
Jacques on April 30th, 2008 at 12:22 pm41.Fuck y’all. Tattoos with typos are cooler then gay emo lyrics without typos. If she can laugh it off she’s primo wife material.
bfree
i think that was really uncalled for
Autopsy26 on April 30th, 2008 at 12:33 pmI think Allen Falkner might be the only hope in this case.
JenO33 on April 30th, 2008 at 12:35 pmMy inner grammar nazi just cringed.
memphis on April 30th, 2008 at 12:36 pmI would explode or go insane if that happened with one of my tattoos.
I THOUGHT THE RIGHT SIDE SAID
“SIMPLY THAT YOUR GROUND”
MR.C on April 30th, 2008 at 12:40 pmthis always saddens me when i see it happen. aside from the fact that i’m a proofreader and do report formatting as a career, i had a single word tattooed on my wrist and must have checked at least three dictionaries and five or six people before i was convinced that it was spelled correctly (you know how it is, you look at a word long enough and it doesn’t look like it’s spelled right anymore?).
hopefully there’s something that can be done, if she does, in fact, want to fix it. if not, well, maybe it can be her interesting story? though i imagine most people would want their interesting story to be significantly smaller…
silvereden on April 30th, 2008 at 12:55 pmoh dear. my biggest nightmare is somethingspelt wrong inked on my skin forever more!
deadlypoison on April 30th, 2008 at 1:24 pmEw. Okay, that’s really gross. But, honestly, maybe she’s just a smart girl with bad grammar? I’m sure there are people out there that are much more stupid than her…=/
sophisticaitlin on April 30th, 2008 at 1:26 pmJeez I’m not even a native English speaker and I’m put off…
Ev on April 30th, 2008 at 1:48 pmWhat a shame :( It’s really beautiful, though.
marta on April 30th, 2008 at 1:50 pm#38 I seriously doubt it. Besides, what about the artist, he was there too, wasn’t he?;) I’m not a native English speaker myself, but we learn about contractions and the use of apostrophes from the very beginning and it isn’t something we struggle with. On contrary, I’ve seen many native speakers who confused it.
omg. i feel bad.
but wouldn’t you notice beforehand?!?!
this is why you make sure everything is perfect before you get it permanently tattooed onto you.
gricher on April 30th, 2008 at 1:54 pmlol she just needs to have “…the corner” flowing into her arm pit - that’d make sense and retain the sentiment, sort of. :P
spookshow_baby_79 on April 30th, 2008 at 1:55 pmha ha well the quote kinda sucks anyway
kidd on April 30th, 2008 at 2:40 pm54: Oh dear.
blueeyeddevil on April 30th, 2008 at 2:50 pmI would feel sorry for her if English isn’t her first language. But otherwise, careful proofreading is a must when making as important a decision as getting tattooed and in such a prominent place too.
charlotte on April 30th, 2008 at 2:52 pmAside from the obvious “your” instead of “you’re” and “the” missing, there’s also a “to” missing….it should read “let all the red roses bloom to signify that you’re around”…
ohh typossssss….
christina on April 30th, 2008 at 3:08 pmThe lyrics are supposed to be “Let all the red roses bloom to signify that you’re around”
Sad :(
Snap Dragon on April 30th, 2008 at 5:04 pmOk and you have to question the artist here too?? Did he or she not realize what they were putting on this girl?
Snap Dragon on April 30th, 2008 at 5:06 pmJesus.
PC on April 30th, 2008 at 5:21 pmIf you’re getting a tattoo, at least spell-check.
This makes me think of a girl who I used to know who had “Oi! Oi!” tatooed on her clavicles, but it looked like “Oil Oil”. They make stencils for a reason.
Vera on April 30th, 2008 at 5:24 pmWhat a pity.
MaidenDisaster on April 30th, 2008 at 5:25 pm*headdesk*
Morgan on April 30th, 2008 at 5:46 pmAlso, re: 61: she needs to grammar check, not spell check. The spelling is fine… The grammar, however…
Morgan on April 30th, 2008 at 5:46 pmOne could probably squeeze in a skinny ‘e’ on the end of ‘your’, the spacing would probably look a little off afterwards though.
CC on April 30th, 2008 at 6:06 pmUnless you are familiar with the person being inked, there’s no reason to assume that she’s an idiot. Maybe it was the artist’s flop.:/
Tranque on April 30th, 2008 at 6:23 pmMisspelling aside, it looks nice enough. I don’t like how it it set up; I think it should be “Let all red roses bloom” be on one single line, rather than bunched up on a side.
I can’t even understand what it’s trying to say… the grammar is so bad.
Bendtheglass on April 30th, 2008 at 7:06 pmNo one caught the spam? Comment #35 :P
peejay on April 30th, 2008 at 7:50 pmYikes.
Jill Vicious on April 30th, 2008 at 8:04 pmCouldn’t you just tack a small cursive E onto the end of the R and add a apostrophe?
It might look odd, but better than having a grammatical error on your chest forever!
Killaya on April 30th, 2008 at 8:13 pmPart of one of my tattoos reads “A Pirate’s Life”, but for about 4 years it said “A Pirates Life” because the artist forgot to tattoo the apostrophe.
I didn’t notice it until the next day once all the excess ink and purple stencil came off. I figured I’d go back in when I got another tattoo, but that ended up not being until last year. At last!
It’s not in a place I show off a lot, so I wasn’t self-conscious about it.
Megan on April 30th, 2008 at 8:24 pmah! this makes me twitch. the only thing worse would be if she has another tattoo somewhere with ‘than’ instead of ‘then’!!!
nope on April 30th, 2008 at 9:33 pmThis would drive me absolutely insane; I’m a complete stickler for grammatical correctness. If it was the artist’s error, I would be FUMING.
possessed on April 30th, 2008 at 9:40 pmAlthough, apart from the grammar, I actually quite like the tattoo - even though the whole phrase doesn’t actually seem to make any sense!
possessed on April 30th, 2008 at 9:44 pmDuh.
k on April 30th, 2008 at 10:24 pmA requirement of being a tattoo artist should be having a spell checker on hand–considering most people seem too dumb to do it themselves (unless of course, you think people should pay for their stupidity ;p)
Rose on April 30th, 2008 at 11:24 pmWow, what a fabulous advertisement for Adam at Electric Haven in Tempe, AZ! You can’t buy this kind of publicity. Well, you could, and in a way, I suppose he did. He will(or should) be paying for this one for a while, and rightfully so! What a douche, that’s a crime against humanity, body-modification, and grammar. That’s 3 strikes!
That poor girl. Many people advertise their stupidity, but usually not this blatantly, or permanently. *cringe* On the upside, her friends probably aren’t smart enough to notice. But seriously, I just can’t imagine putting that little thought and planning into a mod as permanent, visible, and uh, “close to the heart” as this. Plus, if you’re going to go through the pain and expense of a tat like this, be fucking committed and do your homework! I know many people feel differently, but I feel that tats should be somewhat sacred to the individual they’re on. Shit, it’s her body, and I hope she’s happy with it, or can be. If not, well, my condolences on you’re typo ;p
me on May 1st, 2008 at 12:49 amto all the people saying “surely the artist should have seen this and done something about it!!”; I have heard of policies where artists get you to do the writing, and get you to double check it, and whatever you ok, that’s what they tattoo on you. Regardless of whether it’s right or wrong or whatever. Then it’s the complete responsibility of the person getting tattooed, it’s not the artist’s problem.
Not trying to stick up for the artist or anything, but i have heard of that.
beans on May 1st, 2008 at 1:39 amI would be so upset, I’m such a spelling freak.
jenn on May 1st, 2008 at 1:42 amugh, horrible. it would sound better without ‘bloom’ anyway. though if they are lyrics then who am i to say, but me not knowing where that is from i prefer the bloom out of there. “Let all the red roses signify that you’re around” OR perhaps “Let all the red roses bloom TO signify that you’re around” (as #58 mentioned).
Tamango on May 1st, 2008 at 1:43 ampoor show… hopefully she’ll figure out a way to fix that mess.
my number one pet peeve with spelling errors is the your, you’re
valon oddity on May 1st, 2008 at 4:08 amI’d like to know the context this was sent in to you. Was it, ‘Here’s a picture of my fantastic new chestie,’ or was it sent as a warning to others to double check things first? Might help us to figure out who is at fault here, because I really can’t accept it was meant!
Swampy on May 1st, 2008 at 5:13 ambeans you’re right. When I worked in Dallas a guy came is and wanted his girlfriend (of 4 years) name on his shoulder, HE wrote it down on paper, the artist made him spell it out loud without looking at it, and then asked him to double check the spelling after he made the stencil… He got the tattoo and while getting the tattoo called her to let her know so she came up to the shop. By the time she got their they were done with the tattoo and he showed her and she said “who the fuck it that”?
Totally the wrong spelling…
The artist was not at fault for that one for sure.
Snap Dragon on May 1st, 2008 at 7:54 amIt was however a huge tattoo and dude was stuck with it and an angry girlfriend.
“who the fuck is that” not it
Snap Dragon on May 1st, 2008 at 7:57 amI dunno, I think it can be fixed.
optimistic on May 1st, 2008 at 4:53 pmThere’s some room in front of roses for “the” and a “to” in front of “signify” (maybe at the hollow of her throat?) and a good artist could PROBABLY squeeze in an “e” at the end of “your”. I just hope once she gets his fixed she learns from this mistake and proofreads.
deserves it!!….
Max Brand on May 1st, 2008 at 6:50 pm#38 Bobb - Yep. I was going to post similar about the kanji tattoo reactions.
Quite the awkward moment when someone with a terribly wrong one (in bad handwriting too, half the time) asks my opinion. Uh…
akibare on May 1st, 2008 at 7:01 pmFor the last fucking time, contractions are easy:
you are (u r) = you’re. The apostrophe is the missing “a”
we are (we r) = we’re. etc.
belongs to you = your (ur).
Just a little reminder for the L33t modders out there.
Veltis on May 2nd, 2008 at 4:09 amOh my god, it doesn’t even make sense! Not to mention the little contraction issue (or lack thereof issue, I guess). Why wouldn’t you double check before getting this? Ask all your friends, type it in Word and spell/grammar check it, something?
Check this out before getting a tattoo, ladies and gentlemen: http://bellevuecollege.edu/writinglab/apostrophe.html
Caitlin on May 2nd, 2008 at 2:14 pmHAHAHAHA. That fucking SUCKS.
Ana on May 4th, 2008 at 11:40 ammaybe she realised she couldnt fit all the wording in..
so shortened it down a bit?
lornen on May 4th, 2008 at 12:46 pm38: No offence, but I find most American kids have a problem with differentiating between “your” with “you’re”, and “to” with “too”, not foreign kids.
I find that foreign-language schools teaching English as a subject take special care to show children the difference (just my opinion from observation, I know there are excellent American schools too). Maybe it’s easier to take English for granted when everyone around you is speaking it.
However, like in my case, being Chinese growing up in Malaysia, you had to learn your mother tongue first and then your national language (Malay). English is just a subject in school but we all learnt the language well partially because we’ve learnt to converse to others in other languages/dialects, perhaps the language center in the brain have been made more receptive and easier to pick up English well.
Just saying that maybe she isn’t foreign, foreign people can speak/write better English than native speakers too. Also perhaps we should highlight the point that the tattoo artists themselves should be more careful and less negligent when it comes to worded tattoos. Can they be held responsible to a degree?
Wolf on May 4th, 2008 at 10:11 pmGrammar needs to be corrected, but it’s a beautiful chest piece :D
Caaait on May 6th, 2008 at 7:45 amI’m tempted to get a gramatically incorrect tattoo now in the hope that everyone that’s getting way too worked up about this will spontanously combust.
Dan on May 6th, 2008 at 11:26 amTerrible. I’m in the same boat as Megan (post #72) was though…got a quote tattooed, checked the stencil, apostrophe was on it, all good. Got home, cleaned up, looked in the mirror, swore. Next appointment in a few weeks not a few years though, thankfully.
David xvx Ludd on May 7th, 2008 at 5:54 pmjust put “to” in the middle: let all red roses bloom, to signify that your..oh.. ok, ‘you’re’ around” … well.. might as well fix what you can and leave alone what you can’t
tRiSha on May 7th, 2008 at 6:29 pmI’m with Dan on this one.
tattau on May 12th, 2008 at 9:13 am*repeats what everyone else has said*
dannax on May 18th, 2008 at 4:45 pmIt reminds me of Robbie Williams’ tattoo on chest : “Chacun à son goût” I doesn’t mean anything in french! Or if it’s exactely what he wanted to say, then there’s is a grammatical error, and honestly that sounds wierd. The right sentence is “A chacun ses goûts” But who am i to criticize, my english is not so good..
Anlor on May 21st, 2008 at 4:43 amNo mattter how I try to read this I still can make no sense of it, but it could be changed to “let all red signify that roses bloom year-round.”
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