Toilet demon or courage? Duolingo wants to fix your terrible foreign-language tattoos
New campaign from the education app aims to make those language errors less permanent.
As spring and summer approach, you must brace yourself to start seeing them out in public again—bad tattoos. There are many types of bad tattoos, of course, but perhaps one of the most consistent and clichéd genres of these is the mistranslated foreign-language ink. Whether it’s a translated saying in Sanskrit, Mandarin, Japanese, Thai, or any number of languages, the first thought that pops into my head is . . . I wonder what that really means.