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Swedish also has a funny name for the @-sign, named after the trunk of an elephant. In fact, quite a few languages do. Here's a short sample from the Wikipedia
by mryall 15y ago
Swedish also has a funny name for the @-sign, named after the trunk of an elephant. In fact, quite a few languages do. Here's a short sample from the Wikipedia article:
In Swedish and Danish the sign is known as the "snabel a" (literally trunk a), owning to the resemblance between the sign and the trunk of an elephant. In Norwegian the term most commonly used is "krøllalfa" (literally: curled alpha). In Greek the sign is known as "papaki" meaning small duck. In Slovenian, the most common word for it is "afna", colloquially meaning "monkey", much like in Polish. In Hungarian, it is called "kukac" meaning "caterpillar".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign#Names http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign#Names
- kilian 15y agoAnd in the Netherlands, we call it a ape's tail (we use 'ape' both for monkeys and ape's.)
- ajarmoniuk 15y agoIn Poland it's very often simply called "ape" (often giving e-mail addresses), before I often heard "elephant's ear".
- Derbasti 15y agoSome people in Germany call it 'Klammeraffe', which would roughly translate as 'an ape that clings to something' or 'spider monkey'.
- ciupicri 15y agoAnd also in Romania.
- berkes 15y agoWitch makes overheard conversations quite weird, since apenstaart is quite a long word: «yea, that is em-dot-dee-ee-vee-ar-eye-ee-es monkeytail hotmail-dot-com»