A post from this blog's past: https://saintsontheloose.blogspot.com/2015/06/car-tags.html was about licensed "vanity"car tags with unusual readings which the driver may use for an extra fee above the required standard registration fee.
In the parking deck where I work, I recently saw a new tag which intrigued me: UN4GIVN. Using the English language letters and numbers this would transliterate as "unforgiven." What in the world could this mean?
After considering multiple possibilities, including a reference to a movie title or that the driver was a defiantly unrepentant philanderer, I decided that the most likely meaning was as a sarcastic insult to Christians, who often describe themselves as forgiven sinners.
Friday, June 14, 2019
UN4GIVN
Labels:
atheism,
car tags,
forgiveness,
insult,
movies,
sarcasm,
transliteration
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