Darling 🖧❎,

Congrats to your 2222nd post. =)

Thankyou and good catch. Interestingly, I'm now breathing down the neck of both talexb at 2264 posts, and afoken at 2272 posts. Do you predict I will catch up to either of them?

The redoubtable karlgoethebier is also right in the mix at 2239 posts (update).

Number of Posts (Update)

Date	Monk	Posts	Monk	Posts	Monk	Posts	Monk	Posts
Oct 31 2023	afoken	2273	talexb	2264	karlgoethebier	2239	eyepopslikeamosquito	2235
Dec 10 2023	afoken	2290	talexb	2265	karlgoethebier	2244	eyepopslikeamosquito	2291
Aug 6 2025	afoken	2391	talexb	2405	karlgoethebier	2339	eyepopslikeamosquito	2428

Updated: changed the black X in LanX emoji to an inverted green one.

👁️🍾👍🦟

BTW, 2222 is a Schnapszahl. You can leave the bottle on the table when you go. You may also see Redoutable as well as .

«The Crux of the Biscuit is the Apostrophe»

Dear karlgoethebier,

I have to congratulate you for your interesting and entertaining reply ... and because replying to you now allows us to finally draw exactly level at 2241 nodes apiece, after a combined thirty two years at the monastery! :)

👁️🍾👍🦟

Modern Christmas trees emerged in western Germany during the 16th century as Christians brought trees into their homes and decorated them with gingerbread, nuts and apples

-- from The History of the Christmas Tree

LanX, given your location, I've created a new and improved Unicode emoji for you, celebrating your annual ritual of eating of gingerbread, nuts and apples under the Christmas tree:

🖧 ❎ 🫚🌰🍎😋🎄

While I appreciate you wear Lederhosen on such occasions, I couldn't find an emoji for that.

👁️🍾👍🦟

That third emoji is very new. I just see (rough ASCII-art rendition):

+---+
|01F|
|ADA|
+---+

It's U+01FADA GINGER ROOT and part of the Unicode v15.0 release (the latest is v15.1). I have the latest Firefox running on the latest Win10 (I just updated everything) so I'm guessing I simply don't have an appropriate font. I imagine others are in the same boat.

There are minimal details in the Unicode PDF Code Chart "Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A - Range: 1FA70-1FAFF".

Perl can provide information on all properties with:

$ perl -E '
    use Unicode::UCD "charprops_all";
    use Data::Dump;
    dd charprops_all("U+01FADA");
'
[download]

Perl v5.38.0 added support for Unicode v15.0 (see "perl5380delta: Unicode 15.0 is supported"). Those who haven't upgraded to v5.38.0 yet, won't be able to use the code above. Here's a few selected lines of the output:

{
  Age                          => "V15_0",
  ...
  Block                        => "Symbols_And_Pictographs_Extended_A"
+,
  ...
  Emoji_Presentation           => "Yes",
  ...
  Name                         => "GINGER ROOT",
  ...
}
[download]

The full output takes up a couple of screenfuls on my 27" monitor. I've put it in the spoiler for anyone interested.

<Reveal this spoiler or all in this thread>

— Ken

For me it's the first emoji for LAN which doesn't display.

Anyway, if we really want to reinvent Chinese with emoji hieroglyphs, than I'd rather go for 🛹🏘️ or 🫁

"Long" explanation

My rather long (sic) family name Langsdorf translates to long-s-village (sic-sic) or more directly "long-s-thorp"

German tends to introduce "s" as a connector in compound words (compare Saint PeterSburg°).

Hence the first half ends on "GS" which is almost homophone to "X", and capital X was stylish in the age of LaTeX and Linux and Unix.

So LanX is pronounced like "lungs" with an "angry voice" aka standard German accent.

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
see Wikisyntax for the Monastery}

°) Tsar Peter (the Great) wanted to attach his empire closer to Europe, so he chose a German name for his new capital. Most cities on the Baltic sea where heavily Hanseatic anyway. The Russian version is "Sankt-Peterburg" (Санкт-Петербургъ) without s.

> you wear Lederhosen on such occasions

Even worse, because of my mixed heritage I always start the day dancing Dabke in Lederhosen :)

Anyway thank you so much, gingerbread, nuts and apples spiced with hot candle wax and spruce needles are among my favorites in German cuisine :)

Cheers Rolf
_{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
see Wikisyntax for the Monastery}