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No one actually uses „Klammeraffe“ in German. It’s just „at“ (English pronunciation – most of the time). I wonder how widespread the use of those alternative na
by arrrg 12y ago
No one actually uses „Klammeraffe“ in German. It’s just „at“ (English pronunciation – most of the time). I wonder how widespread the use of those alternative names for “at” is in other languages he lists.
In German „Klammeraffe“ is this weird, unwieldy nickname that used to be somewhat fashionable a long time ago (mid-nineties maybe, whenever many people where first confronted with email addresses). I remember it being used back then whenever people were explaining the internet in media (TV, radio, books), though I don’t think it ever got widely used outside that context.
- aristus 12y ago"arroba" is definitely the common word in Spanish & Portuguese.
- igravious 12y agonot Spanish but lived in Spain and this is spot on for castellano (Spain Spanish)
- acangiano 12y agoIn Italian, "chiocciola" and "chiocciolina" are definitely the most common.
- camillomiller 12y agoDepends on the contest. With friends, family and people not very tech savvy, yes, it's widespread. In work circles the English version is commonly accepted.
- danmaz74 12y agoAgreed. And to nitpick on the article for the non-Italian speakers: The pronunciation is "kee-o-cho-la”, no "chee-o-cho-la" :D
- ma2rten 12y agoThe Dutch one "money tail" is more widespread than "at", I would say.
- andruby 12y agoDo you mean "monkey tail" ("apenstaart")? I forgot about that one. I haven't heard it in years in Belgium.
- DouweM 12y agoI'm not so sure. I'm Dutch as well, and when I recite my email address I use the English "at", so "douwemaan at domain" rather than the unwieldy (4 syllables long!) "douwemaan apenstaartje domain". In my experience most (if not all) people in my age group (18 - 25) simply pronounce it as "at". This could be a generational thing as most of us were raised with the internet and all these internet-y terms come quite naturally to us.
- mercer 12y agoIt could very well be an age thing, because I myself and friends of similar age (25-30) use both 'at', and 'apenstaartje', although primarily the former.
- tripzilch 12y agoGenerally for email we say "at", because it's just shorter. But for other uses, "apenstaartje" is also in widespread use. In particular for referring to the symbol itself, because it avoids ambiguity.
- blubbi2 12y agoActually, this is the first time I have ever heard about the word "Klammeraffe" in this context, but according to Wikipedia ( http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-Zeichen http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-Zeichen ), there are a lot of alternatives to "At". Affenschwanz: Monkey tail Affenohr: Monkey ear Affenschaukel: Monkey swing Elefantenohr: Elephant ear
- Semaphor 12y agoBack around the time I had my first computer (1996) I'd hear a few people call it "Klammeraffe". I completely forgot about it though, "christoph Klammeraffe cwagner.me" is not exactly efficient to say.
- frik 12y agoKlammeraffe was common in German (in Germany, Austria) til the late nineties. Nowadays everyone uses "at".