15 Shirts With Hilarious Translation Errors

Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor

Jul 14, 2022 8:00 PM EDT

You've all heard the stories of English speakers getting tattoos of phrases in languages they don't speak. They try to get something inspirational or beautiful tattooed on an extremely visible body part only to discover later that what their tattoo really said was either something random or humiliating. Either way, it was not what they asked for. Although this is still happening today, this trend in the tattoo world was huge in the 90s and 2000s and will never fully go away.

Although this phenomenon is most well known as a tattoo fail, there are also millions of t-shirts with the same problem. Who could forget those wild mistranslated Born To Die shirts that went viral a couple of years ago? These shirts beg the question: is this a typo, or was this shirt just designed by a totally random and wacky guy? That is a question that only you can answer.