semi related to an art post goin around but when i was young i always wondered who Xing Ped was, and what he had done to become the patron saint of crossing the street
cantonese allows "t" and i guess it's possible it's in some older or nonstandard transliteration method.
i can’t believe that Xing Ped, hero of the crosswalk, was also mixed race!
Okay, so in first or second grade, real young, there was another kid who thought a xing was a type of rabbit, because in one of the classroom's windows there was a yellow sign with a silhouette of a rabbit and the word "XING" under it, and that became one of my core memories.
“you like ksing rabbits, don’t you? you’re a filthy rabbit kser ;3”
I have this memory from the distant past of Usenet, of someone criticizing a cyberpunk story with a character named “Ped Xing”, saying “this is the worst character name since Hiro Protagonist”
probably a loan word pe with a surreptitious english past marker ed turning into ped
