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#2I believe in Russian it's called "Sobachka", or "Doggy." (Correct me if I'm wrong.)
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#3I believe in Russian it's called "Sobachka", or "Doggy." (Correct me if I'm wrong.)
Apperently it's собака (sobaka, meaning "dog").
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#4I believe in Russian it's called "Sobachka", or "Doggy." (Correct me if I'm wrong.)
Arrobase in french. Don't think it means anything.
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#5When I worked in retail, I noticed Indian people would pronounce it something like 'attarrat', with a hard R in the middle.
It took me a while to catch on to what was ment by that, but i never really pushed it much further to get the 'proper' pronounciation.
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#6For a very long time, I thought the "{" was called "birdwing" because that's how it was explained to me. When I try that now I get very odd looks.
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#7No 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.
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#8No 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 bei…
"arroba" is definitely the common word in Spanish & Portuguese.
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#9In Norwegian the official name is "krøllalfa", meaning "curly alpha". Hip in the 90s, but I don't think I've heard anyone call it that in years. I was actually surprised when I learned that "at" was the proper English name and usage. I had always assumed it was a symbol that had been co-opted into network addresses because it was accessible from the keyboard and kinda looked like an a.
One advantage of the international variants is that they're not ambiguous, whereas in English you might have to explicitly specify "the at symbol" when speaking.
As a side note: A long time ago, before the internet and international shopping, I mainly thought of $ as the variable character in BASIC.
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#10When I worked in retail, I noticed Indian people would pronounce it something like 'attarrat', with a hard R in the middle. It took me a while to catch on to what was ment by that, but i never really pushed it much further to get the 'proper' pronounciation.
I believe they were saying "at the rate".