A Jewish princess (read: all the girls in our tribe—bnot melekh are they) shouldn’t be doing any tattoo anywhere on her body. It’s asur mide’oraita, in Leviticus 19:28. All permanent body modifications except male circumcision are forbidden.

“The letters had actually run together due to a poor tattoo and read נסכה tattoo which means ‘infuse’. Not something you want written on your tuches.”

Could be worse. Check out one attempt at Hebrew signage on the part of the usual anti-Zionist suspects.

My favorite is those mouthwash containers with the words מי פה written on them. You can read them as mei pe, which means “mouthwash” (literally “water[s] of mouth,” a translation further complicated by the fact that “water” is always plural in Hebrew), or you can read them as mi po, which means “Who’s here?”

There are advantages to a consonantal, vowel-implicit script, though. Without it, Ben Gurion’s classic “Oom Shmoom” wouldn’t be possible (it’s based on reading או”ם, the abbrevation of the Hebrew for “United Nations,” as if it were a normal world).

I had a lot of fun pointing out that:
a) Tattooing “princess” on your butt does not make you one, and
b) The letters had actually run together due to a poor tattoo and read נסכה tattoo which means “infuse”. Not something you want written on your tuches.

Reminds me of people who get those chinese tattoos which they think says something like “love sprirt” only it really says “I love General Tzo’s chicken”

No, Hebrew writing is alphabetic, or more accurately an abjad, meaning a consonant script where vowels are left implicit (for example, if you write down “Pentium” in Hebrew letters, like this: פנטיום, you could just as well read it as “Fanatium”).

The letters of the Hebrew alphabet are ultimately derived from Egyptian pictograms, like an ox head for aleph, house for bet, camel for gimel, door for dalet et cetera. But the word Hai (“alive”) is written with two letters, not one, and neither of these is derived from a pictogram for a moose. In fact, there’s no letter in any of the descendants of the Sinaitic or Phoenician alphabets that comes from a pictogram of a moose.

As long as it’s not a moose limb, I don’t care what it looks like.