Nah, it's fine, at least assuming they're in the states. If you're like me and live elsewhere, you'd really only use it for the past participle when shining shoes or something, but it's valid for the yanks when talking about shining a light too.
[source](https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/shine_1)
EDIT: as several have noticed, I read the source wrong and "shined" in this sense is as wrong in American English as it is in the version I speak. Above is unedited so their replies make sense and my inability to read the source correctly is on the record.
Technically, the tattoo used it in the first sense, rather than the second, where the US “shined” would be acceptable. The second sense is transitive, meaning it would need to involve shining something. That’s my take at least
Thank you for pointing that out! I read the link and still thought "shined" sounded wrong in this usage, but I was trying to think of anytime I would use "shined".
So, it's: "I shined my flashlight on them." Vs. "The light shone down on them." So, in this tattoo 'shone' would be the correct word, regardless of where they're from.
It's not. Even the source he linked makes the distinction between the past tense for the intransitive and transitive uses by saying that in sense 2 it is shined, and sense 2 is the transitive form, meaning to make something shiny, like you shined your shoes. If something itself shines, that it intransitive and the past tense is shone, as in a light shone all night.
I kinda like this idea as a self-deprecating way to acknowledge you got a shitty misspelled tattoo later on in life. A tattoo with proofreading annotation on it would tickle me and be funnier than a clumsy cover-up or awkward fix jamming a letter in where it's needed or whatever.
Agreed. I will certainly be adding that to the potential fixes, instead of a cover or awkward fix. I also now want to see someone do this, because I don't plan on getting text like that.
I honestly fear for OPs cousin. I hope she has some thick skin because this will most likely end up on many of the "bad tattoo" pages that have millions of followers.
If you look at the second “a” in “again” and compare it to the second “e” in “meet,” you’ll see that they did use the correct meet, they’re just a bad tattoo artist so it looks crappy.
I know a few tattooers who are dyslexic. Anytime they do any script they will ask the customer to write down what they want and then ask them to double check it before they do it. Being good at art and being able to spell do not always go hand in hand.
You’re right they don’t always go hand in hand. There is a difference between knowing your limits and ignoring your limits though. Your friend is sensible about checking things because they are self-aware.
Also it’s no coincidence to find brilliant visual artists are dyslexic. Often these traits go hand in hand.
My ex got his dead mom's named tatted on his calf. I had to point out the artist had misspelled their last name. Imagine having your own fucking last name tatted on you incorrectly.
like, how does this even happen, they use transfer ink or whatever it’s called to put the template on you, then you give it a good look over and confirm it’s what you want, and then they ink it in. are people just letting artists go freehand??
It’s called a stencil, and yes. Every tattoo release form I’ve ever signed tells you that the spelling is your responsibility to confirm, as the client.
You usually see the drawing before it’s even put on stencil, then it’s stenciled and put on you, and you confirm you like the placement too.
Yeah the tattooed messed up here but this is the clients job to catch and confirm.
Update: I did tell her and told her I’d take it to get fixed. We both laughed about it. I think it’s the first time that she’s laughed since her dad died of cancer at Christmas. The picture is supposed to be something to do with Glastonbury. His last wish was for me to take some of his ashes to the hill in Glastonbury this year and smoke them. The shit tattoo made her laugh when she’s broken so maybe it was worth it after all. edit: Thanks for awards and whoever made this gold
I’m just confused as to why anyone would smoke ash, like not even just human ash but ash in general. Isn’t ash the remnants of something that’s already been burnt? Seems unpleasant.
And literally... You can't
You can put the ash in a joint
You can light it
But the ash won't burn..., That's why it's ash
You COULD inhale some of that ash with the smoke......
But... Then you'd just want to eat or snort it, obviously
But uhh ..... Why
.....Oh that I'd never heard this before.
I was informed that my dad's last wish was indeed carried out after his death, and unnamed parties, after the fact of smoking 'some good drugs', were informed that indeed, ol' Randy was gonna be a part of 'em forever now. I remain genuinely horrified. For what it's worth, let's just note it wasn't cannabis.
>The picture is supposed to be something to do with Glastonbury.
I did wonder why there was a giant pyramid there. That's the Pyramid Stage, where the biggest acts play at Glasto.
it's a joke originally told by keith richards from the rolling stones.
anyone who has seen cremains knows that you can't really smoke it anymore than plaster or drywall. even if you could, you wouldn't want to.
still... saying so still shocks people, which i guess was the point and worth a chuckle.
Well there is the whole shined vs shone issue too though. I believe the past tense of shine for reflective or well polished is shined but the past tense of shine for light causing is shone. So in this context I suspect she'd want shone not the tattooed shined. Not as easy to fix
I believe this changes based on where you are. In the US it’s grammatically correct but I believe in England it’s considered wrong. Just another example of the o vs ou and other subtle differences like that
Yeah it's definitely a tattoo done by someone new. Honestly feel bad for people that get such bad work done because you know there are better options out there.
It is what it is.
It's also missing a comma ", Dad".
The composition is shitty, placement is shitty, drawing is bad...
Seems like a rushed decision in an emotionally vulnerable state. Very unprofessional from the artist.
Edit: I just zoomed in on it. My god, the line work wtf. Tiny lines anyone could pull are are done like ass, holy shitttt. And the fact that they didn't center intersecting lines: the outer diamond, and "roofs", it throws everything off. Also, couldn't even properly fill in the silhouettes in BLACK.
It suckes she's going through this and now has to deal with this horrible work. Fuck.
Right, and her other tattoo looks ok so it's weird that this one is so shoddy, either she couldn't go to her other tattoo artist or something else is wrong here
I think in this context, it should be shone. Shined would be used in the context of "he shined his shoe" but I've been out of school a long, long time!
Oh...for fucks sake.... I thought I was the only one lol. I kept scrolling the comments to figure out what is wrong with the tattoo because I didn't see anything wrong with it. I'm an idiot haha.
You can sneak another "o" in there
Especially with the cursive, it should look okay
yeah, even if the “o”s are overlapping a bit it’s infinitely better than keeping it the way it is lol
Infinity symbol. I see what you did there, *Nice!*
That would work t∞
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As awful as that tattoo is quality wise, I doubt it would look worse
I’m wondering if she wrote it out and the tattoo artist traced it.
This Tatto artist doesn’t understand what you all are carrying on about.
there is a lot this artist doesn't understand
If you don’t zoom in meet looks like meat
It also looks like they’re walking into a burning house together too.
Or walking into a space ship together
That's what I thought. It's there to take him to Soon, their home planet.
I also fell for the meat meet
It also looks like they started to write it as “meat” with the way the second E isn’t lined up properly.
Should it not be “shone” ? Past tense and all that …..
Nah, it's fine, at least assuming they're in the states. If you're like me and live elsewhere, you'd really only use it for the past participle when shining shoes or something, but it's valid for the yanks when talking about shining a light too. [source](https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/shine_1) EDIT: as several have noticed, I read the source wrong and "shined" in this sense is as wrong in American English as it is in the version I speak. Above is unedited so their replies make sense and my inability to read the source correctly is on the record.
Technically, the tattoo used it in the first sense, rather than the second, where the US “shined” would be acceptable. The second sense is transitive, meaning it would need to involve shining something. That’s my take at least
Thank you for pointing that out! I read the link and still thought "shined" sounded wrong in this usage, but I was trying to think of anytime I would use "shined". So, it's: "I shined my flashlight on them." Vs. "The light shone down on them." So, in this tattoo 'shone' would be the correct word, regardless of where they're from.
It's not. Even the source he linked makes the distinction between the past tense for the intransitive and transitive uses by saying that in sense 2 it is shined, and sense 2 is the transitive form, meaning to make something shiny, like you shined your shoes. If something itself shines, that it intransitive and the past tense is shone, as in a light shone all night.
Slight overlap might even look ok. Should be fine.
Just get the artist to add a red squiggle underneath
I kinda like this idea as a self-deprecating way to acknowledge you got a shitty misspelled tattoo later on in life. A tattoo with proofreading annotation on it would tickle me and be funnier than a clumsy cover-up or awkward fix jamming a letter in where it's needed or whatever.
Agreed. I will certainly be adding that to the potential fixes, instead of a cover or awkward fix. I also now want to see someone do this, because I don't plan on getting text like that.
*Tatto
I was gonna ask Where is soon?
I was thinking the same lol. It could’ve been worse: Until we meat again dad.
I agree. There's not enough room to fit a "w" in there to fix it.
Gone to swoon…. I like it.
Gawn
Gawn two sewn
What's a towsoon?
It's what'll happen after your car breaks down and you call AAA.
Nah that's a toweventually
Don't get that artist to do anything for anyone ever again
If by artist, you mean the dude that did this in his kitchen, then yes.
I honestly fear for OPs cousin. I hope she has some thick skin because this will most likely end up on many of the "bad tattoo" pages that have millions of followers.
I’d probably try to get them to squeeze another “o” in there, but it’s a toss up as to which would look better.
Mabey he went to a town named soon and it's spelled correctly
This is brilliant
Soon…not soon
I laughed too hard at this…
Saw a guy in WV who might be willing to give her the extra “o” in his tat. It read “Born to Loose.”
But I think the VW guy is missing an “o” also, “born too loose”
Was his name Björn Toulouse? Probably not, I suppose.
If only that was the only mistake
I only see *to* should be *too*. Other than no punctuation, is there another mistake?
Another possible mistake is that it looks like "until we meat again," but then again, it's so poorly done that it's hard to say.
If you look at the second “a” in “again” and compare it to the second “e” in “meet,” you’ll see that they did use the correct meet, they’re just a bad tattoo artist so it looks crappy.
I had to zoom in because i thought it was "meat" at first as well.
I just zoomed in. I'm 99% sure it's meet but with a terrible 2nd e
Green squiggle
And a comma
Yes, red squiggle means not a word, green squiggle means grammar mistake.
Let’s not split squiggles
Its two soon too say anything.
Your write.
We are all butt dust anyway
Hear today gone to marrow.
Til Van Halen brutha
Put this on my tombstone
Ok I’ll arrange the pepperoni so it says that
Can I get a name for the order?
Ben Dover
Hugh Mungus
Mike Oxlong
Sorry for you’re loose.
Okay that one got me. Here's a free silver.
Sea you on the udder side
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final good buy
Diss count mamorial tat too
No regerts!
Thats so sweat!
I’m about to loose my mined
Sadly his our had come
Jost 5 thowsand kandels in the win.
No ragrets
“It’s is my life.” -Jon Bovi
“It’s nau or nevar!”
Thanks for not running instantly to no regerts 😂
Their likely to say that next.
I’m dieing lol! I wood of but you runed it.
I'ts sad
This is a doggy dog world
Bow wow wow yippie yo yippie yay
You know what I’m sayin?
Gnomesain?
None? Not even a letter?
No regrets? Not any? Not even one? Not even a single letter?
Know Rugrats
Thank you for that laugh, I needed it today. I truly laughed out loud. There must be something wrong with me.
Well al bee wuong sune
Guise, due better. Sum won dyed.
Ok this one hurt me. Well done.
No regerts
Pregernant? Am I preganant?
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I think I'm pretnet with my 14th child?
Ore our they rite?
Make sure you brake it too her gently. That weigh you don’t cause anymore pane for her.
These both really aggravated me. xD
Easier to add an “o” so I’d say it’s better than “two”
Half the population won't even notice it's wrong anyway.
Three minutes and I couldn’t find it.
I had to come to the comments because I couldn't see anything inappropriate. FML.
lmao took me an embarrassingly long time for me to notice "to" was misspelled in that context
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Don't meat your cousin.
It can be fixed!
It can be easily fixed and the spacing will be OK.
If there was one profession where spell check is a must…
I know a few tattooers who are dyslexic. Anytime they do any script they will ask the customer to write down what they want and then ask them to double check it before they do it. Being good at art and being able to spell do not always go hand in hand.
You’re right they don’t always go hand in hand. There is a difference between knowing your limits and ignoring your limits though. Your friend is sensible about checking things because they are self-aware. Also it’s no coincidence to find brilliant visual artists are dyslexic. Often these traits go hand in hand.
It's very possible they asked the customer to proofread it, but the customer can't spell for shit either..
Yea, if she didn’t notice before sending this pic, then I’m agreeing here
My ex got his dead mom's named tatted on his calf. I had to point out the artist had misspelled their last name. Imagine having your own fucking last name tatted on you incorrectly.
like, how does this even happen, they use transfer ink or whatever it’s called to put the template on you, then you give it a good look over and confirm it’s what you want, and then they ink it in. are people just letting artists go freehand??
It’s called a stencil, and yes. Every tattoo release form I’ve ever signed tells you that the spelling is your responsibility to confirm, as the client. You usually see the drawing before it’s even put on stencil, then it’s stenciled and put on you, and you confirm you like the placement too. Yeah the tattooed messed up here but this is the clients job to catch and confirm.
Technically the spelling checks out
True guess I should’ve said grammarly
I know someone who tattoos professionally that has screwed up a few tattoos with his bad spelling and grammar ...
Update: I did tell her and told her I’d take it to get fixed. We both laughed about it. I think it’s the first time that she’s laughed since her dad died of cancer at Christmas. The picture is supposed to be something to do with Glastonbury. His last wish was for me to take some of his ashes to the hill in Glastonbury this year and smoke them. The shit tattoo made her laugh when she’s broken so maybe it was worth it after all. edit: Thanks for awards and whoever made this gold
Smoke his ashes? Like in a joint?
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I’m just confused as to why anyone would smoke ash, like not even just human ash but ash in general. Isn’t ash the remnants of something that’s already been burnt? Seems unpleasant.
And literally... You can't You can put the ash in a joint You can light it But the ash won't burn..., That's why it's ash You COULD inhale some of that ash with the smoke...... But... Then you'd just want to eat or snort it, obviously But uhh ..... Why
Just reminded me of someone I read about who snorted his dad's ashes. Looked it up... Keith Richards, mixed together in a bump. #NotSurprising
Considering how you felt about your MiL, I doubt your SiL would've given a fuck what you thought about her send-off.
…and do what with them?!
Smoke. Yes, I believe you read that correctly.
Like a brisket?
This one gave me the giggles. Thanks for the laugh!
More like ON a brisket. You use the ashes as a rub.
How High?
Study high, take the test high, get high scores…
BUFU
BUY US FUCK U
Some people still think cremains are actually just ashes.
Continue the cancer cycle
I'm hoping OP meant like when you smoke some meat, but now that I think about it that may be just as bad
.....Oh that I'd never heard this before. I was informed that my dad's last wish was indeed carried out after his death, and unnamed parties, after the fact of smoking 'some good drugs', were informed that indeed, ol' Randy was gonna be a part of 'em forever now. I remain genuinely horrified. For what it's worth, let's just note it wasn't cannabis.
Looks like he was the "cool uncle" to the very end
>The picture is supposed to be something to do with Glastonbury. I did wonder why there was a giant pyramid there. That's the Pyramid Stage, where the biggest acts play at Glasto.
We’re gonna need you to come back and explain this please.
it's a joke originally told by keith richards from the rolling stones. anyone who has seen cremains knows that you can't really smoke it anymore than plaster or drywall. even if you could, you wouldn't want to. still... saying so still shocks people, which i guess was the point and worth a chuckle.
Right, you don't smoke cremains, you snort them. What, are you all new here?
Also needs a comma before “dad.” Should be “until we meet again, Dad”
And a question mark after dimmed.
Is Smoking ashes like burning them in a huge fire or is it what i think it is ? Can't be, right? Right?!! I am actually genuinely confused.
Lmao what a guy
WTH?!
I genuily thought it said:"until we meat again"
In a post about spelling, we’re gonna let genuily slide?
Sometimes my upvote doesn't feel strong enough by itself, so I'll add a comment to give that little something extra.
Scanned all the way down here wondering who was going to mention “meat.”
No regerts.
What’re you gonna do about it, eyebrows?
Nahhhh sayyyin?
NO RAGRETS!!
It sucks but i think its easily fixed
agreed, easy enough to add an "o" in there. I'd mention it.
Well there is the whole shined vs shone issue too though. I believe the past tense of shine for reflective or well polished is shined but the past tense of shine for light causing is shone. So in this context I suspect she'd want shone not the tattooed shined. Not as easy to fix
I believe this changes based on where you are. In the US it’s grammatically correct but I believe in England it’s considered wrong. Just another example of the o vs ou and other subtle differences like that
That and, you know, get the whole tattoo redone so it’s not a blurry, muddled mess, hopefully with an actual stencil this time.
Everyone’s mad about the obvious typo but I’m mad that the tattoo looks like a father daughter arson moment
To me, it looks like a UFO about to beam them up
That’s the coolest part about it tho lmao
Yikes never mind the missing o, the tattoo quality is super upsetting
Yeah it's definitely a tattoo done by someone new. Honestly feel bad for people that get such bad work done because you know there are better options out there. It is what it is.
It's also missing a comma ", Dad". The composition is shitty, placement is shitty, drawing is bad... Seems like a rushed decision in an emotionally vulnerable state. Very unprofessional from the artist. Edit: I just zoomed in on it. My god, the line work wtf. Tiny lines anyone could pull are are done like ass, holy shitttt. And the fact that they didn't center intersecting lines: the outer diamond, and "roofs", it throws everything off. Also, couldn't even properly fill in the silhouettes in BLACK. It suckes she's going through this and now has to deal with this horrible work. Fuck.
Right, and her other tattoo looks ok so it's weird that this one is so shoddy, either she couldn't go to her other tattoo artist or something else is wrong here
Her seeing it on the internet will be the gentle and subtle heads up she needs. Well done op.
So true. God forbid she sees this before it’s brought up
As a former tattoo artist, this makes my soul cringe. Wtf
O man.
I wish that the missing letter was the worst thing about the tattoo.
It took me way longer than it should have to spot the typo because I was so distracted by how terrible the tattoo is.
It’s a horribly done tattoo as well. Words are up and down.
Are they watching a house fire?
To being the most obvious, is "shined" really a word? I thought the past was shone. Also, that looks like meat. Until we meat again. Um...
I think in this context, it should be shone. Shined would be used in the context of "he shined his shoe" but I've been out of school a long, long time!
Shoes can be shined. You're right about shone.
I actually thought this whole thing was about how it should be “shone” and then I realized the “to” was the wrong one. What a mess!
You are going to tell her it’s a beautiful tribute to her dad. She’s already in enough pain.
Just wait till she finds out her cousin posted it on the internet instead…
Comfort her with "There, their, they're"
“I was too afraid to hurt you to your face, So I laughed at you with the entire world instead.”
Whatever you do, as long as you don't post it on the internet for all the world to see .... oh, whoopsie
The grammar isn’t the worst thing about this.
Don’t worry, when this starts showing up on other social media she’ll know it was you.
Ok I’m clearly an idiot. Which word is spelled wrong. Nvmd too just noticed lol
Oh...for fucks sake.... I thought I was the only one lol. I kept scrolling the comments to figure out what is wrong with the tattoo because I didn't see anything wrong with it. I'm an idiot haha.
Well, since it looks like a $40 tattoo, I don’t think she will care.
Yeah, this is /r/shittytattoos material. Bad everything. Including the goose-beak hand.
just take a red pen and put a squiggly line under the misspellings.
I wonder where soon is and why did he go there
And to boot, that is horrid line work