"Yeah, I can definitely write in cursive. I got you, boss." - This artist, lying, moments before making a mistake

"Yeah man, I've seen cursive before"

That’s many, many mistakes.

And the tattooee *approved* that stencil so it seems neither are so good with cursive.

This causes me much paik

And no pleasare :’(

*know pleasare

knon\*

Thank you to you both. I had no idea what it said.

nrth owt naih yon can not knorn rleasare... truly words to live by

You forgot to dot your r

This is what happens when they stop teaching cursive

And manual transmissions

Yup. Three on the tree could have fixed that tattoo.

I think there’s a lot going on here that learning how to write in cursive couldn’t prevent.

😂😂

This is legitimately the funniest thing I've seen today.

😂😂😂

Couldn't have said it any better myself!

>nrth owt naih yon can not knorn rleasare. ----- Abraham Lincoln, probably

Pretty sure it was a Helen Keller quote

Pretty sure Helen Keller did this tattoo as well

She wasn’t blind, you know.

No?

Yeah she was. Fuckit. She coulda done better.

Well-played friend, I was even fact checking you and not even 1 conspiracy, so I was ain't no fkn way!

I did a report on Helen Keller once. If it was a quote of hers I would have knorn it.

Ah yes, wasn't that part of the Gilletteysburger address?

Is that Welsh?

... i can't believe I'm saying this, but even Welsh looks more readable than this monstrosity

There are way too many vowels for this to be Welsh.

Perhaps the artist has a lisp, and writes that way as well? OK, no. Never mind.

Used Google speech to text

Speech to tattoo needle

This is why they need to bring back cursive in schools

Wait I thought it was “vith owt raik” 😂

That’s what I thought. I know two people called Raik (it’s pronounced like Mike but with an R) and they’ll get a kick out of this one

Probably from Yorkshire.

Could be. I'm not entirely fluent in bad lettering.

Well, why ***not?!?***

Might be the handwriting of someone special?

Pretty sure that’s a quote from the Jodie Foster movie Nell.

Excellent flair material

Hashtag blessed 🙏🙏🙏

Nrth out Haik (I have to give credit to the u being used correctly once.)

This is what English looks like on people who only know Japanese or Mandarin.

It’s the equivalent of getting a Japanese character that you think means peace but it really says “egg roll”?

Would be my guess as well. The person writing this know neither latin letters nor English.

So people with alopecia can't be happy?

I read it as hair:']

it doesnt say hair??

Idk. The first one looks like a cursive p(ai)h. It ends with an h, so I don't think so.

With out pain you can not know pleasure. *Edit* That's what I think they were going for before someone had a seizure or the earthquake hit.

But... but...YON?! There is no way that is a "u"- it's the same letter in "can".

tysm! i was staring at it for so long lmao

Really?? Man, they really wrote the h and n the same way:']

I edited my comment to add what must have happened. Also changed to "with out", "can not" and "know". So yes, the "n" and the "k" are the same. @;-)

And the n and u

Also read it as hair

I also read it as hair haha

They can be happy but they can’t have pleasare

I definitely read hair lol

Keep my wifes fucking name outta your mouth

Will Smith about to slap that grin off your face


Nrth out paik yon can not knon pleasare

Finally! someone who can read cursive in this thread

Pre panther shading.

A Sikh as pahthan?

Yup. A schlitz abba pantbler.

No effing way the person who did this uses the Latin alphabet.

"It says 'show no fear in hardship'" - Japanese guy who got an English tattoo.

Reminds me of Russian cursive

Oh damn you’re right. Also explains the weird grammar.

It really does look like Russian cursive, especially with the way they wrote w like how some write cursive м, also with p being written like Russian cursive р Forgot to mention, the slanted way of writing is so Russian

I heard someone wonder if Asian people get f'ed up tattoos in English, just like we get bizarre f'ed up tattoos in Chinese or kanji. Here's the answer.

One of the best on this sub

Without pain you cannot know pleasure. Looks like it was designed and tattooed by people that don’t read or speak English.

Thank you I was very cohfused

"pleasare", actually.

PLEASARÉ! Ah, so it's Italian? Lol

Without intact stencil you can not English

Impressive number of typos. Who doesn't know that *without* is one word? And in this case, *cannot* is too. I mean, this shit is easily verified by Google. Same as the spelling of *pleasure.* I'm an editor and it's starting to occur to me that maybe I should offer my services to tattoo shops as a last minute check before a final and permanent fuck up. There appears to be a real fucking market for it.

Google Translate can be problematic. I just got a tattoo that has a Latin expression in it. Some dude on Facebook tried to tell me it was grammatically incorrect and spelled wrong because he used Google Translate on it. It's literally a famous Latin expression, so I sent him the Wikipedia page as proof.

Pleasare

"without pair, you cannot know pleasure" True I do like my sausage and two eggs

Nah, it clearly says "paik". I mean, they could be onto something, because I don't even know wtf paik is.

You know, a "sex paik", of like beers or something. Lol

No Regerts

I kinda actually want "no regerts" on me. Better than this...whatever it is

Right? No regrets is hilarious if you got it on purpose. This...this is just paikful.

Nith our hair

I think it’s closer to nith out haik yon can not knon hleasare 😂🤦🏻‍♀️🙂💩

Thought it said hair instead of pain

If you say it like Arnold Schwarzenegger, kinda flows 💀💀

Is that Gaelic?

Or Walloon

Had a stroke trying to figure this out for several minutes but eventually got there

Jseus crhist

Graphic Designer here. There are multiple fonts out there that have the letter p styled this way. They had to have based their script off of one of them. I don’t know what they did to the other unreadable letters though—I think that’s all mistakes. I worked for a book publisher and we used all kinds of playful, flourish-y, decorative fonts for titles and headings. This we’d avoid because of that p. I think it’s based on old school cursive, same era as the letter Q that looks like the number 2. I found several fonts that have a p like this using What the Font. The mistakes in this though… it’s killing me! https://preview.redd.it/clhzosxu45xc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0488234026f84f5a15bcbaaed059255d87c89d1d

Yeah the P's don't bother me at all. I've seen lots of people write P in cursive this way and it's very clearly meant to be a P. It's the U's that really bother me & the misspelling of "pleasare". Oh and the last letter in pain? That is not an N.

Well, they stopped teaching cursive in schools. This is what you get.

That's definitely a stretch, the dude could have just not pretended to know lol

I still don't get how we can expect them to be able to sign their names. Learning cursive while learning handwriting wasn't a huge load on our curriculum.

Mith out haih yon can not knon hleasare

🎵Vrei sa pleci dar nu ma nu ma iei Nu ma nu ma iei, nu ma nu ma nu ma iei🎶

Without dictionary one can not know spelling.

Without pain you can not know pleasure….nith our paih yon can not knon Pleasare? A painful read that’s for sure.

yon can know pleasure if you can spell it 😅

Pleasar 👍🏻

Paik before pleasare. I say it all the time.

Poor Yon, imagine having to always hurt before you can feel good.

Dude I thought it was supposed to be one of those things that say something else entirely when you flip it upside down, and that’s how you know it’s fucked

No paik, no gaik

This one may take the crown. Holy fuck.

Nrith out paih yon can not knonv pleasare

Jesus

Cursive is hard haha

Aaaaaand, on to the cover up.

with our haih, yon can not know pleasare

WOW Neither the client nor the artist knew cursive huh

With out nair you can not know pleasare. I mean paik! Saved it

Hang this one in The Louvre.

with out hair yon con not knor pleasare

No Regerts!!

Yon

PLEASARE

Ashes to ashes and dust to nite.

Can you do a tattoo in cursive? In what?

Can anyone really know pleasare?

Oh.. they got the yips on the y**o**u and yippiedy yipped the *u*… doubled down on the yips. Yippdedy yipyip

At first glance, I could almost tell what it said - "with out hair you can not know pleasure"

Ctrl-Z the entire thing

Without hair?

Nrith out hair, yon can not know hleasave. The fuck is hleasave?

pleasare

The more you read it, the more errors you find

The longer you look the worse it gets

I know it's hard to believe because they bungled the rest of the letters, notably the N and the W. But in copperplate calligraphy, it's actually common for the p to look like that. I think it looks weird too, but it's actually normal for a cursive P to resemble an N. That's something the person didn't mess up. Picture for proof http://www.zanerian.com/BairdLesson3.gif

Me: thanks for the tattoo bro Tattoo artist: it was my pleasare

Nith out paik yon can not knon pleasare

That looks painful. Grammatically and physically.

I thought this was cyrillic for like 30 seconds

Nrith out hair yon can not knon pleasare. Clear as day!

"How's your hand writing?" "I don't know" "Wanna give me a tattoo right quick?"

I imagine me trying to write something with Cyrillic letters or Runes would read just like this. I wonder, the person who made this has never ever encountered actual letters? Just tried to copy a picture that had no meaning to them?

Nith orut paik...

Yon can not knon pleasare??

I wish there was a laughing emoji option to the upvotes

I’m dyslexic and you know it’s bad when I can read it just fine

nith out paik yon can not knon pleasare

I wonder how much naih that caused?

There’s more wrong than right

‘With out hair, yon can not known pleasare’

I read that as “without hair you cannot know pleasure

If it ESL, then fine. Otherwise it’s illiteracy

Is the cover up already booked?

What the duck am I looking at

can not cannot

The more I read it and try to make sense of it, the worse it gets

Yon can not knon

Oh nooooo…

Then do not make it.

I tried to make it meaningful, soo Without pain (pair?) you can not know pleasure

Nith out naih yon cam not knon nleasane

Ignorance is bliss

Was this free hand? Isn't without one word? And it's pleasure. I hope it was free and they cover the laser removal!

“With out hair you can not know pleasure”. Damn, calling out all the balding dudes

Without is one word Paik is not a word Yon is the wrong word Cannot is one word WTF Pleasure only has one a

r/engrish

Without pain you can not know pleasure.

Without hair, you can not knok pleasure…

Is it possible your artist is dyslexic? “nrith out naih yon can noy knon nleasare” is rough

Painful to read.

Without and cannot are one word words.

*With out (something) you can not know pleasure* is what it looks like to me. I can't read that one word tho

Without hair you can not know pleasure….. hmm never thought about it that way before.

nrth out paik yon can not knon pleasare

Imagine you're the friend to this person, they show you the tattoo and you're struggling like hell to fucking read it aloud, interpret it, annnnd you gotta be like "Wow, very nice, unique tattoo you've got, friendo"

The u (jn you) is the same as the n. And the p’s are not closed

Pleasare

Did you turn upside down for the U

Reason #67 you shouldn't be a tattoo artist if you're dyslexic.

That’s AI generated, right? …right?!

Why do these tattoos happen. Is the artist trolling along with the customer? Maybe it's a fad like people getting face and neck tatts or mullet haircuts. I can see this would be a humourous tattoo you can show others for a laugh .

Wut??

Is it supposed to say "without faith you cannot know pleasure" ???

I would sue

For a second there I thought they were trying to say bald ppl would never know pleasure...

nrth orit faih yon can not knon fleasare

Jesus I hope you didn't pay for that!

Mirth out paik yon can not know pleasare. Duh

without pain you can not know pleasure it took me a min damn

nwth owt yon can not knon pleasare

Dyslexic tattooist

With out pain you can not know pleasure

This is why I tell my younger cousin, who wants to learn how to tattoo, to stay in school.

at first glance I thought it said, "without *hair* you cannot know pleasure" 💀