Talk:ping

Etymology

The third and fourth meanings of the noun form have different etymology than the first two meanings. The first two meanings are indeed onomatopoeic to the sound, but the later two meanings derive from the second meaning, where a submarine radar has found something. That is, a ping looks for something.Scientific29 (talk) 04:04, 27 December 2012 (UTC)

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And (deprecated template usage) pong: interjections offering and claiming an item. I think Top Cat added these, which bodes ill for their legitimacy. Equinox ◑ 21:04, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Deleted both. Equinox ◑ 17:47, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

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ping

RFV-sense "latency". A ping test determines latency, but does "ping" mean "latency"? - -sche (discuss) 22:07, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

I can understand where this comes from, as a shorthand. Saying "what was the ping?" instead of "what was the ping time?". Might be difficult to attest, tough. --Catsidhe ^{(verba, facta)} 22:11, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Yeah it's real, perhaps mainly among people who play online games. Search for "low ping" on Usenet. Equinox ◑ 22:13, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

I see; thanks for the tip. I've added four citations using "low ping", "high ping" and "zero ping". I suppose this is resolved. - -sche (discuss) 22:38, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Yes, thanks - I added this sense but forgot to cite it. It is indeed a shorthand. ~Eloquio (talk) 15:48, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

middle english etymology

how sure are we that Middle English pingen (a real word, as verified by [1]) is tied into this? do we even know if it had /ŋ/? If the ME word were instead related to impinge, and thus pronounced with /ndʒ/, would it have been spelled with j? Otherwise i find it easy to believe that it's unrelated and that ME pingen was pronounced with a soft G. —Soap— 13:16, 16 August 2024 (UTC)