There has to be more to the story than this. Flourish your ignorance brightly, I say, so please explain it to we who do not immediately understand the literary / historical / cultural reference that you’re making with your new appellation. Of course, this being dated from September, this name may no longer have any meaning for you...
Re: 长舟丫, eh?liukaiqinFebruary 21 2008, 21:59:58 UTC
升工 丁升巨尺臣，尸巨尺臣巳尺工门丹丁工门巳己. As you see, there's no story - this is my joke Chinese name. It could equally be 长闩丫，卡闩丫，卡丹丫，长丹丫 etc. - I just prefer "longboat girl" because I, er, have a Viking surname. It's my way postmodern solution to the wretched problem of finding a Chinese 姓名, though unfortunately it only works with very short names!
I've found quite good simplified Chinese matches for most letters of the Latin alphabet, except L and V. If you can think of matches for them, you'll have helped complete this groundbreaking and incredibly useful and meaningful project.
Re: 长舟丫, eh?peregrinatingsFebruary 22 2008, 20:35:50 UTC
臣尺工么么工丹门丁! And how's that for an "L"? It does one good to be part of such a breakthrough, and though there is still the illusive "V", but with only 26 to go around, laying claim to 1 whole letter is quite an accomplishment. So you're a descendant of the fabled Hjorvarth Ingulbjörn Liut, who "went a viking eastwardly through ice to the shores beyond"? My my, you have quite a lineage there, Longboat Girl.
Re: 长舟丫, eh?liukaiqinFebruary 23 2008, 16:52:54 UTC
Yes! You knew him? (You made him up.) He went a-viking eastwardly? Where to? I hope I do have some lineage, otherwise I've got serious questions about how I got here.
Hey, that's not a bad "L" at all. It also liberates "厶" for "V". So now the dodgiest letter is "J".
丁升巨 甲凹工汇长巨弓丁 乃尺口山门 斤口义 宁凹川尸巨刀 口厶巨尺 丁升巨 么丹乙丫 刀口巳。
Short of using 七 for T and 丁for J, which would screw with the caps.
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I've found quite good simplified Chinese matches for most letters of the Latin alphabet, except L and V. If you can think of matches for them, you'll have helped complete this groundbreaking and incredibly useful and meaningful project.
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And how's that for an "L"? It does one good to be part of such a breakthrough, and though there is still the illusive "V", but with only 26 to go around, laying claim to 1 whole letter is quite an accomplishment. So you're a descendant of the fabled Hjorvarth Ingulbjörn Liut, who "went a viking eastwardly through ice to the shores beyond"? My my, you have quite a lineage there, Longboat Girl.
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Hey, that's not a bad "L" at all. It also liberates "厶" for "V". So now the dodgiest letter is "J".
丁升巨 甲凹工汇长巨弓丁 乃尺口山门 斤口义 宁凹川尸巨刀 口厶巨尺 丁升巨 么丹乙丫 刀口巳。
Short of using 七 for T and 丁for J, which would screw with the caps.
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