Model Boat Mayhem

Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: John Mk2 on February 07, 2011, 04:26:27 pm

Title: What Language ?
Post by: John Mk2 on February 07, 2011, 04:26:27 pm

Any Ideas ? Chinese/Japanese ?

Title: Re: What Language ?
Post by: Martin (Admin) on February 07, 2011, 04:33:58 pm

Too small to see!

Title: Re: What Language ?
Post by: John Mk2 on February 07, 2011, 04:35:39 pm

I Know  >:-o >:-o

Title: Re: What Language ?
Post by: dodgy geezer on February 07, 2011, 04:35:55 pm

Yes, it looks chinese/japanese. But it's too small to distinguish the difference...

Here it is blown up a bit...


(http://s1.postimage.org/1x851wbt0/script.jpg) (http://postimage.org/image/1x851wbt0/)

Title: Re: What Language ?
Post by: Arrow5 on February 07, 2011, 04:45:45 pm

I think we have a moderator that might be able to tell. %)  What is the object ?

Title: Re: What Language ?
Post by: John Mk2 on February 07, 2011, 04:48:41 pm

Some sort of Eh Smoking pipe  :-) Will try a new Pic.

Title: Re: What Language ?
Post by: John Mk2 on February 07, 2011, 04:58:19 pm

Try This !

Title: Re: What Language ?
Post by: Arrow5 on February 07, 2011, 05:09:19 pm

Hmmm, looks like it might take you to "The Inn of the Seventh Happiness" with the right ammunition %%

Title: Re: What Language ?
Post by: Netleyned on February 07, 2011, 05:38:37 pm

Japanese rendition of
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

Ned

Title: Re: What Language ?
Post by: davidm1945 on February 07, 2011, 05:43:00 pm

A rough translation is :- "Light blue touch paper and stand WELL clear" !!

Dave

Title: Re: What Language ?
Post by: malcolmfrary on February 07, 2011, 06:22:57 pm

Probably some of Confucius' better sayings.
Possibly health advice in verse form  -
"Roses are red,
 Violets are blue,
 Do not look up while smoking me
 Because the sludge tastes really horrible"
Loosely translated, of course, and it may have lost something in translation.

Title: Re: What Language ?
Post by: tigertiger on February 08, 2011, 02:27:11 am

It is a pipe that is bodged together in a manner that only Chinese peasants seem to find acceptable.

The script is Chinese, but these not 'Simplified Chinese' characters. As such it could be Hong Kong or Macau (perhaps parts of Guangdong) of any date up to the present.
Or it could be from mainland China before (and for some lower educated after)  Simplified Chinese was adopted in the 1950s and 60s.

The inscription is probably a poem, only a few characters can be made out, one of them being 'moon', another 'sky/heaven'. But a poem on a pipe is common.

Title: Re: What Language ?
Post by: RaaArtyGunner on February 08, 2011, 03:04:49 am

Quote from: davidm1945 on February 07, 2011, 05:43:00 pm

A rough translation is :- "Light blue touch paper and stand WELL clear" !!

Dave

Or,

Him who smokee him be confusess
 O0 O0 O0 O0 O0
But it definetly is not all Greek  8) 8) 8)

Title: Re: What Language ?
Post by: John Mk2 on February 08, 2011, 07:25:48 am

Thanks a lot Guys  :-)) I will try to dig a bit deeper  ok2 Will take bigger pictures & show them to a few take away staff ect. As there is a lot more engravings i have found hidden away on it  :-)