"Difficult Translation Request" Topic

I have a photo of some graffiti I found while at Niagara Falls. It is South-East Asian in origin but that is all I know, unless it is fancy looking jibberish.

It is located on a bridge leading from the second Three Sisters Islands onto the third island (the Three Sisters Islands are off of Goat Island which divides the American Falls and the Canadian Falls).

I am relying on the collective, global brain power of TMP to answer the simple question "What does it say, if anything?"

I apologize if it is obscene or offensive. I am ignorant to its meaning.

link

looks japanese. I'll ask my wife.

charonproductions.com

It says "if you can read this, you're asian"
but thats not the literal translation. =P
j/k
R.

Objects in mirror are closer then they appear?

thats Chineese or japanese

Those are Japanese/Chinese ideograms. They are too indstinct to read properly. The one in the middle top means tree or book or origin. Unless you can read very well, it is necessary to see the strokes properly to look up the sign in a dictionary.

Japanese can be read left to right, or right top to bottom left, or in rare cases right to left. You would usually see some kana (native Japanese characters) mixed in with the kanji (Chinese characters.) There are none here, which does not prove anything as it could be Chinese or it could be a traditional Japanese phrase containing no kana.

"There once was a girl from Nantucket . . . "

JW