the_dancy_vagrant said:
It's the same concept as Latin terms: if you don't speak Latin, it sounds cool. Even if it makes no sense.
For example:
-Partis morsus es dolens
-Duos pro unus proprius
-Tripudio vulgivagus , sapiens scholasticus quod eximius madidus
Brownie points to the first man to run to babel fish for translation.
a part of to eat is painful
two before one properly
I perform a promiscuous ritual dance, scholastic humans who expected to be wet.
And for your information, no babelfish was used. Just me, my Latin notes and the handy-dandy Latin-to-English dictionary on my desk. It's a shame I'm not very good at it.
OT: Yes, it's a shame how people do this, but if they're not willing to go through the effort to find out what the thing they're permanently engraving into their skin is, then they deserve to lose their money and dignity.