Brad Pitt’s new Khmer tattoo
September 6, 2007
Brad Pitt got a new tattoo. It’s on his stomach. According to the gossip mags, it’s Angelina’s birthday written in Khmer script. As everybody obviously knows, Angelina was born on June 4, 1975. The picture of Brad’s new tattoo, however, clearly displays 4.6.74. For Mr. Pitts sake, let’s hope the photo is a hoax, and not yet another lesson in the perils of foreign-language tattoos.
UPDATE: As pointed out in comments, this interpretation is almost certainly wrong.
September 6, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Not so sure. The last figure is partially hidden, and as you can verify here, the Khmer figures 4 and 5 are pretty similar, except that the latter has a small curl on the ascending stroke.
I’d say, from the picture, it could as well be a 5 than a 4.
September 6, 2007 at 4:54 pm
manur is right. more likely it’s a five. 4-6-75, day, month, year, written the non-American way.
i think he got her birthday from her Khmer passport, Khmer citizen ship card, or Khmer residence family book.
September 6, 2007 at 6:37 pm
I think you guys are right. Good call.
October 3, 2007 at 11:06 am
This is how ALL asians in S.E. Asia document dates. Unlike America they ALWAYS
October 3, 2007 at 11:08 am
S.E. Asia Countries document all dates with day, month and year in that order always. Also, Russians and other countries document dates this way opposite of U.S.
Same with names, in Asia, always the Surname (family name) is written or spoken first then given (first) name is written or spoken!
October 3, 2007 at 12:52 pm
yeah…uh…that’s the way the rest of the world writes dates.
whoever said americans are ingorant??
December 19, 2007 at 4:53 pm
Aussie date is day-month-year as well.. so shall good!!!
February 8, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Chinese official commie dates are frequently yyyy/mm/dd.
Thai surnames are behind first names, so are Indian ones. All Asians last time I looked…
That said I don’t give a s*** what BP got tatooed on his stomach.
March 20, 2008 at 1:30 am
I have no doubt that he got the date correct. They have been together long enough. Plus if you were with someone like Angelina, would you forget her birthday. She is beautiful yet also a little lethal.