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You're listening to Away with Words, a show about language and how we use it.

I'm Grant Barrett.

And I'm Martha Burnett Barnett I was in the

grocery line the other day and up ahead of me was a woman who had a sizable tattoo

on her shoulder and so I was leaning forward in trying to get a better look at it because it wasn't an image.

I'm looking around and I'm seeing more and more people wearing tattoos that have text rather than images and it's got me wondering why would you choose

text rather than an image and if you were gonna choose text I mean I'm not gonna

get a tattoo but if I were to do that what would I say?

Right, it's a good question. Some people choose biblical verses. Some people choose

bits of songs that they love. Some people choose misspellings.

Those are my favorite ones. Some people choose misspellings. Bad translations.

Yeah, that's a non-stop source of amusement is the people who

write things like,

better than you, THEH-E-N, I'm like,

okay, that's great to that too, I guess.

Right, right, or something from a foreign language that is a bad translation.

Do you think you would regret text less over the over time than you would an image?

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