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 One of the few new human members of the modern [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]].
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 According to [https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/rip-terry-pratchett/53542/27 this boing-boing post], Sir Terry actually named Constable Ping after the poster, who told him that his name was a Middle-English word for a watermeadow.
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Daibhid C at 21:12, 15 May 2019

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	However it could also be a simple reference to a sterotypical oriental style name, such as [[Hongs\|Hong]] and [[Tangs\|Tang]] (both also used by TP)... A Chinese word pronounced "ping" can be translated to a "plain, or meadow".		However it could also be a simple reference to a sterotypical oriental style name, such as [[Hongs\|Hong]] and [[Tangs\|Tang]] (both also used by TP)... A Chinese word pronounced "ping" can be translated to a "plain, or meadow".

			According to [https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/rip-terry-pratchett/53542/27 this boing-boing post], Sir Terry actually named Constable Ping after the poster, who told him that his name was a Middle-English word for a watermeadow.

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	There are two possible references to the name - {{wp\|Ping\|Ping}} is an application within the tcp/ip network ~~protcol~~ used to confirm connectivity between two computers. One computer send a short signal (or packet) to another, which then returns the packet to confirm its existance. The name of this application derives from the sound made by {{wp\|active_sonar\|Active SONAR}} when an echo is returned.		There are two possible references to the name - {{wp\|Ping\|Ping}} is an application within the tcp/ip network protocol used to confirm connectivity between two computers. One computer send a short signal (or packet) to another, which then returns the packet to confirm its existance. The name of this application derives from the sound made by {{wp\|active_sonar\|Active SONAR}} when an echo is returned.

	However it could also be a simple reference to a sterotypical oriental style name, such as [[Hongs\|Hong]] and [[Tangs\|Tang]] (both also used by TP)... A Chinese word pronounced "ping" can be translated to a "plain, or meadow".		However it could also be a simple reference to a sterotypical oriental style name, such as [[Hongs\|Hong]] and [[Tangs\|Tang]] (both also used by TP)... A Chinese word pronounced "ping" can be translated to a "plain, or meadow".

Shack19 at 18:51, 5 February 2015

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	There are two possible references to the name - {{wp\|Ping\|Ping}} is an application within the tcp/ip network protcol used to confirm connectivity between two computers. One computer send a short signal (or packet) to another, which then returns the packet to confirm its existance. The name of this application derives from the sound made by {{wp\|active_sonar\|Active SONAR}} when an echo is returned.		There are two possible references to the name - {{wp\|Ping\|Ping}} is an application within the tcp/ip network protcol used to confirm connectivity between two computers. One computer send a short signal (or packet) to another, which then returns the packet to confirm its existance. The name of this application derives from the sound made by {{wp\|active_sonar\|Active SONAR}} when an echo is returned.

	However it could also be a simple reference to a sterotypical oriental style name, such as [[Hongs\|Hong]] and [[Tangs\|Tang]] (both also used by TP)...		However it could also be a simple reference to a sterotypical oriental style name, such as [[Hongs\|Hong]] and [[Tangs\|Tang]] (both also used by TP)... A Chinese word pronounced "ping" can be translated to a "plain, or meadow".

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EinFritz: Cat. Watchmen

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Cat. Watchmen

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	However it could also be a simple reference to a sterotypical oriental style name, such as [[Hongs\|Hong]] and [[Tangs\|Tang]] (both also used by TP)...		However it could also be a simple reference to a sterotypical oriental style name, such as [[Hongs\|Hong]] and [[Tangs\|Tang]] (both also used by TP)...

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Osiris: 1 revision: Discworld import 2

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Zdm: Link Fix

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{{Character Data
|title= Ping
|photo=
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|race= [[Human]]

|occupation= [[City Watch|Watchman]]
|appearance= "cautious-looking"

|residence= [[Ankh-Morpork]]

|death=
|parents=
|relatives=
|children=
|marital status=

|books=
|cameos= {{TFE}}, {{NW}}
}}

One of the few new human members of the modern [[Ankh-Morpork City Watch]].

As he is quick to tell anyone who does or doesn't ask, ''ping'' is a dialect word meaning "watermeadow"; that's also the what fellow watchmen call him. He's the type who is always prepared to be questioned, slightly apprehensive, and therefore prone to a lot of bad luck and minor mistakes. In ''Night Watch'' he merely asks about the lilacs he sees the watchmen [[Fred Colon]], [[Nobby Nobbs]] and [[Reg Shoe]] wear on the twenty-fifth of May every year, which causes the normally friendly Sergeant to become rather angry. In ''The Fifth Elephant'', he is the officer who discovers the theft of the replica [[Scone of Stone|Scone]] but misses the thief.

==Annotations==

There are two possible references to the name - {{wp|Ping|Ping}} is an application within the tcp/ip network protcol used to confirm connectivity between two computers. One computer send a short signal (or packet) to another, which then returns the packet to confirm its existance. The name of this application derives from the sound made by {{wp|active_sonar|Active SONAR}} when an echo is returned.

However it could also be a simple reference to a sterotypical oriental style name, such as [[Hongs|Hong]] and [[Tangs|Tang]] (both also used by TP)...

[[Category:Discworld characters|Ping]]
[[category:Human characters|Ping]]
[[de:Ping]]