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Bad Hebrew Lettering Tattoos 3

By Ben Mordechai

Bad tattoos

 

Prof. Tyler Williams who is the Chair of the Religion & Theology Department and Assistant Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at Taylor University College in Edmonton, Alberta, correctly notes on his website about the tattoo.

This tattoo is a tribal style dove with a Hebrew word Chafooshea, written underneath it in a classical Hebrew lettering font. The word is supposed to be Choofsha or freedom in English . The entire tattoo is proablly themed FREE BIRD. The dots underneath the Hebrew letters are vowel markings called nekudot which tell the reader how to exactly pronounce the word; Choofsha or freedom. But this tattoo has incorrect markings which make it spell Chafooshea, which is a non existant Hebrew word, it's gibberish. It will have to be laser removed if it even can be. The word on the right of the photo is how the dots are supposed to be. This is another example correctly pointed out by Prof. Williams.

But with that critical matter out of the way we still have to consider the aesthetic of the tattoo, was it designed and rendered well? Does it look good? This tattoo does not look too good, the dove's shading in between the lines is wierd and awkward and the lettering is faded to shite and to top it off, it is gibberish!

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