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"@" has a lot of interesting names - monkey, herring, pig's tail, strudel, mouse, elephant's trunk, and "arroba" (a unit of weight, like a bushel).
by blowski 4y ago
"@" has a lot of interesting names - monkey, herring, pig's tail, strudel, mouse, elephant's trunk, and "arroba" (a unit of weight, like a bushel).
- joosters 4y agoI forget the exact details, but I've seen it called a snail in some programming language or other - I remember getting an error message along the lines of 'unexpected snail at line x'! I wish I could recall what language it was - perhaps something verilog related?
- gpas 4y agoIn italian we call it "chiocciola", which translates to snail.
- IggleSniggle 4y agoMy favorite name for “@“ is “rogue”
- eurasiantiger 4y agoI prefer ”tourist”
- xpe 4y agoWhat languages or cultures or regions use this form?
- gvx 4y agoYeah, in Dutch it's "apenstaartje" (little monkey's tail), although the last decades, it's becoming far more common to use the English "at".
- froh 4y agoit's "Klammeraffe" in German, spider monkey, and figuratively a small monkey clinging to / clasping someone or something.
- yesbabyyes 4y agoI kept a collection of names for @ on my first website: https://web.archive.org/web/19981202002949/www.student.nada.kth.se/~f96-lla/@.html https://web.archive.org/web/19981202002949/www.student.nada....
- david927 4y agoIt's "zavináč" in Czech -- pickled herring. If you buy them in a jar, they're rolled up, looking a lot like that symbol.
- kotborealis 4y agoIn Russian, it's usually called `dog`. No idea why.
- abudabi123 4y agoA dog will always perform a certain spiral inwards walk pattern before it comes to rest on bedding.
- flawi 4y agoIn the 90s/00s it was often referred to as 'miukumauku' in Finnish, roughly translates as 'meowmeow', as in the sound a cat makes, since it somewhat looks like a sleeping cat.
- tabtab 4y ago@ "Princess Leia hair"