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I believe in Russian it's called "Sobachka", or "Doggy." (Correct me if I'm wrong.)
Собачка – a diminutive form for "dog" – can be used as a conversational word for "commercial at" (@). Собака (dog) is vulgar in many contexts in Russian.
In 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 internatio…
I always thought the English version was ampersat.
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I believe they were saying "at the rate".
Not sure why people are downvoting you. The @ symbol is hundreds of years old and originally meant "at the rate of" (as in, "10 boxes @ $1" means "10 boxes for $1 apiece"). It's perfectly possible that the Indian population could have picked this up and perhaps contracted it a bit during the reign of the British Empire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/@_symbol
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 bei…
^ = Hat
* = Star
# = Hash
~ = Squiggle
{ = Curly
I can think of a few English pictograms on the standard keyboard: ^ = Hat * = Star # = Hash ~ = Squiggle { = Curly
All I can think is how much longer it must be to speak tweets aloud in other languages. As opposed to "at Jim Lipsey, at Gruber, at Chockenberry, at The Talk Show", now it's "chee-o-cho-la Jim Lipsey, chee-o-cho-la Gruber..." Sounds like a mouthful already.
I believe in Russian it's called "Sobachka", or "Doggy." (Correct me if I'm wrong.)
Arrobase in french. Don't think it means anything.
> Le nom arobase, forme la plus fréquente, est une déformation récente du castillan arroba(s), qui désigne une unité de mesure de poids et de capacité (dite en français arrobe), en usage en Espagne et au Portugal8, de grandeur variable selon les régions et selon les liquides (huile ou vin). Ce terme, attesté en Espagne depuis 1088, vient lui-même de l'arabe الربع (ar-rubʿ), « le quart », pour un quart de l'ancien quintal de 100 livres, soit 12 kg environ. Depuis le xvie siècle, en effet, le mot arroba — parmi d'autres — s'est constamment écrit au moyen de l'abréviation "@"9.
In Japanese, the sign itself is called "attomaaku" ("at mark") but it's pronounced as "atto" when dictated. So someone's email would be johnsmith-at-gmail-dot-com, and if you ask a Japanese person to pronounce the symbol, they would say "atto". However, if you show them the symbol and ask them _what it is_, they probably would say "attomaaku". Semiotics is fascinating.
Not sure what's so fascinating about that particular example in Japanese, there are much more interesting things in the language than this.