Clarification on 人の夢は終わらねェ


Good evening!

Is 人の夢は終わらねェ the correct spelling for "A man's dream never dies", or is it
with a language twist, like someone very specific would spell or say it like
that? I know that the way it's spelled is like "hito no yume wa owara nee",
and that the correct japanese version would be "hito no yume wa owaranai", but
i'm thinking about getting a tattoo with that, and wanted to know for sure how
to do it. Also, it would be divided, 人の夢は on one side, 終わらねェ on the other.
What side should each of them be on? Thank you very much,

João Reis Santos, Portugal




If you're _really_ interested only in grammatical and semantic clarification,
yes, you are understanding that sentence correctly. That would be still
somewhat funny to the eyes of native speakers by its nature, but at least you
don't have to worry about your tattoo being listed in [sites like
this](http://tokyodesu.com/2013/08/09/pictures-terrible-kanji-tattoos-with-
their-english-translations/).

If you want to separate that sentence into two lines, yes, breaking after は is
OK. 人の夢は means "man's dream," and 終わらない, "never ends." I'm not sure what you
mean by _side_ , but neither 人の夢は nor 終わらない would make sense alone. If you
want it to be understandable as a meaningful message, it would be better to
keep them together.




If you're _really_ interested only in grammatical and semantic clarification,
yes, you are understanding that sentence correctly. That would be still
somewhat funny to the eyes of native speakers by its nature, but at least you
don't have to worry about your tattoo being listed in [sites like
this](http://tokyodesu.com/2013/08/09/pictures-terrible-kanji-tattoos-with-
their-english-translations/).

If you want to separate that sentence into two lines, yes, breaking after は is
OK. 人の夢は means "man's dream," and 終わらない, "never ends." I'm not sure what you
mean by _side_ , but neither 人の夢は nor 終わらない would make sense alone. If you
want it to be understandable as a meaningful message, it would be better to
keep them together.

