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