New to the group, and searching for help.

#18 -- He's given two alternatives for "I shrug". OP, in case he doesn't come back to clarify the nuance, be sure to choose only one of them.

You should also try to find a tattoo artist who knows Greek, at least the alphabet.Or at least make sure that he can make a xi and an omega etc that people will recognize. There are a lot of bad "Chinese" tattoos out there, I'm told.

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#19 I was sure you'd written "housework" on purpose, as though that were what an online translator might have come up with instead of "homework." That's why I mentioned "Finnish housework" in #9, and wrote that "picking a translator at arbitrary increases the odds of a good consequence."

Maybe you did do it on purpose, and you're just being modest about it.

CK

oh you make me look so much more artful and capable of manoeuvres my mind can barely fathom even in retrospect.

and 'modest'? i haven't been modest since highschool.

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#20: Sure enough. I once saw a girl with a Chinese tattoo, and one of the characters was missing two strokes making it unintelligible.

Thanks guys, I am not worried about an artist who doesnt know his symbols, letters etc. The place I am going is called Super Changos and is disputably the best place in Houston if not Texas to get a tatoo. So to clarify, billander gave me two different options? What is that in the parenthesis?

#18, 20

ΑΠΟΤΙΝΑΖΩ from ΤΙΝΑΖΩ = jolt or jerk in order to release from a burden, yoke, load etc
3EFORTWNOMAI = unload, dislodge and metaphorically, to get rid of someone/something annoying, repressive etc

op,
apart from the precise translation in #17
here’s another one that could be equally meaningful but in a rather archaic and more catchy style

ΚΑΙ ΑΠΑΛΛΑΞΩ ΕΑΥΤΟΝ ΑΠΟ ΤΟΝ ΚΟΣΜΟ
and I shall relieve myself from the world
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"Sorry, Thorn Tree doesn't like that text" in greek fonts (?)

I really appreciate it guys, I am getting the tatoo done sometime this weekend and will post a pic if possible.