Linguistic tattoos?

[nothingsong]

Hey all. I've been reading this community for a while but only recently joined - I'm an undergrad linguistics major in Philadelphia, fluent in only English but interested in pretty much the whole gamut of languages and language science. Anyway, does anybody have any ideas for a good linguistics tattoo? I've come up with a few ideas:

- A Babel

Comments

[gore_whore_5]

My vote goes to the Babel Fish. It covers the image-instead-of-text aspect, and is also completely awesome.

[dichroic]

What school? Penn alum here, took my first, wonderful, linguistics class there.

Much amusement was derived freshman year from my (native Feluffyan) pronunciation of water, my Ohio roommate's pronunciation of orange, etc. By the time I graduated I didn't have much Philadelphian accent left at all, a trend which has only solidified in the intervenving twenty years of living Elsewhere (several Elsewheres, actually.)

[nothingsong]

Temple University. I applied to Penn, but they denied me aid so I rescinded. I've thought about applying there grad school, eventually, but my experiences with them have been largely negative, so I'm not sure.

[nothingsong]

My capital D was more of a flap. And yeah, I think it's spread out a bit, but somehow I still get comments on it.

[sparkofcreation]

You know, I'd love a Babel fish tattoo myself, but as someone who read the books obsessively but never got into the TV miniseries (much less the movie), I don't think I'd have looked at that picture and thought "Babel fish!" without the caption.

[bobandiarepals]

I knew a girl who had the Indo-European language tree sprawling across her leg.