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The Swedish is incorrectly reprinted by the TFA. It says "with an (elephant) trunk", while the referenced Tweet (by a Swedish person) says "elephant trunk A".
by unwind 12y ago
The Swedish is incorrectly reprinted by the TFA. It says "with an (elephant) trunk", while the referenced Tweet (by a Swedish person) says "elephant trunk A".
The actual Swedish wording is "snabel-a", which is a compound word consisting of the two words "snabel" ([elephant] trunk) and "a" (the letter "a").
So the proper English translation of the Swedish name for the character @ would be something like "an A with a trunk", I guess, since English isn't quite so malleable when it comes to building compound words.
Source: I'm from Sweden.
- Sammi 12y agoYeah it's the same for the Danish version. It's literaly "trunk-a" or just "trunka". I'm actually from the Faroe Islands, which is an autonomous contry in the Kindom of Denmark. We speak Faroese, another nordic language, and here it's "kurla". Which is literaly the Faroese word for curl. Just happens to have the a at the end. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kurla http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kurla
- iamtew 12y agoI'm from Sweden as well, and it took a while for me to hear it referred to as "kanelbulle". In the early 90's when I was introduced to email, my father and his colleagues used to call it "kanelbulle", and that stuck with me. It wasn't until a few years later when email started to gain traction with the non-techie crowd I heard it being called "snabel-a". Translation; "kanelbulle" is Swedish for "cinnamon roll/bun", because @ looks like one.
- iamtew 12y agoEdit: First sentence doesn't make sense, I mean it took me some time to hear it referred to as "snabel-a".