http://www.pinoytattoos.com/games/ Baybayin, Alibata, and Tribal Filipino Tattoo designs Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:26:29 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.pinoytattoos.com/games/comment-page-1/#comment-3072 Jay Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:59:22 +0000 http://www.pinoytattoos.com/games/#comment-3072 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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