Comments on: Games? http://www.pinoytattoos.com/games/ The #1 website dedicated to Filipino Tattoos. Photos of Sun and Stars, Baybayin (AKA Alibata) and Tribal tattoos. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:52:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tansero http://www.pinoytattoos.com/games/#comment-1660 Tansero Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:50:00 +0000 http://www.pinoytattoos.com/games/#comment-1660 He could have had it done as "GE-M-S" with the kudlits so it would read as "ge(h)ms" - not "jems". Since that is how baybayin is read - it is pronounced as it is written. "TATTOO" would be written as "TA-TU" and not as "TA-T-TO-O" Or better yet, he should have used "LARO". He could have had it done as “GE-M-S” with the kudlits so it would read as “ge(h)ms” – not “jems”. Since that is how baybayin is read – it is pronounced as it is written. “TATTOO” would be written as “TA-TU” and not as “TA-T-TO-O”

Or better yet, he should have used “LARO”.

]]> By: kulas http://www.pinoytattoos.com/games/#comment-319 kulas Wed, 29 Sep 2010 03:57:05 +0000 http://www.pinoytattoos.com/games/#comment-319 can u translate "ginawa sa pilipinas" to baybayin please, because i will have a tattoo like that. can u translate “ginawa sa pilipinas” to baybayin please, because i will have a tattoo like that.

]]> By: Jay http://www.pinoytattoos.com/games/#comment-318 Jay Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:59:22 +0000 http://www.pinoytattoos.com/games/#comment-318 Baybayin is a syllabic writing system and was never adapted to write English words. Nonetheless, if the motivation was to directly represent the word "GAMES" as closely as how it should be spoken in English (spell it the way it sounds), then the "Baybayin" translation in the tattoo may actually be practical. Crude but practical. To translate it as "GA-ME-S" is probably "accurate" to the purist but it doesn't serve the purpose of the intent (when spoken as such in syllables). It would not make any sense at all. But, who knows, as you said essentially -- it's the inked that prinked. Baybayin is a syllabic writing system and was never adapted to write English words. Nonetheless, if the motivation was to directly represent the word “GAMES” as closely as how it should be spoken in English (spell it the way it sounds), then the “Baybayin” translation in the tattoo may actually be practical. Crude but practical. To translate it as “GA-ME-S” is probably “accurate” to the purist but it doesn’t serve the purpose of the intent (when spoken as such in syllables). It would not make any sense at all. But, who knows, as you said essentially — it’s the inked that prinked.

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