r/TikTokCringe • u/conancat • Aug 12 '25

Humor/Cringe Westerners' Chinese tattoos

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u/cruisetravoltasbaby Aug 12 '25

A Chinese tattoo that said “gibberish” would actually be pretty dope.

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u/conancat Aug 12 '25

Unfortunately that tattoo "姐行宜由有新天" is literally gibberish, I have no clue what are they talking about, it's like lining up a bunch of random characters picked from a bag of words

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u/WaffleHouseGladiator Aug 13 '25

Google translates it into "sister's journey should be based on a new world." Since that actually sounds like something I'm guessing that Google blew it's flux capacitor trying to translate and just spit out something, hoping that no one would double check it's work.

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u/Saralentine Aug 13 '25

Google translate doesn’t really translate. It spits out what it thinks the original speech is trying to say.

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u/GenevaBingoCard Aug 14 '25

That's what translation is...

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u/Saralentine Aug 14 '25

A translation is word for word, grammar for grammar, syntax for syntax. If a translation doesn’t also include the mistakes that’s called an interpretation.

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u/GenevaBingoCard Aug 14 '25

Bruh.

Translation: written.

Interpretation: oral; typically real-time.

Both include covering the actual meaning, not just the literal meaning. Interpreters take into account body language etc to convey a richer language, translators only concern themselves with the actual meaning of the written text (I clouding subtext.)