DEAR ABBY: How does one tell a friend that the tattoo she got in honor of her recently deceased friend is misspelled? Or should one? (I don't think most people would have noticed the misspelling, for what it's worth.) -- GOOD SPELLER IN PASADENA
DEAR GOOD SPELLER: Sometimes the kind thing to do is to keep one's mouth shut. If this were something that was easy to fix, I'd say tell your friend in English, and fast. However, because it's not, my recommendation is to let someone else give her the bad news.