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Post by ekianjo »

kiyoto wrote: post #64
ekianjo wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha, alright, I did not know what was your background in Japanese. :) It just seemed weird to mention Japanese for this particular case of @ since I don't think there is anything remarkable to it compared to how it's pronounced in other languages as mentioned in the original post. What magazine do you write in ?

Sorry for sounding like an ass, but I thought I would provide my slightly different perspective, precisely because Japanese was not particularly remarkable pronunciation-wise (but still interesting semiotics-wise) I contribute to one of the Nikkei publications.

Sorry if the question is stupid, but were you born of Foreign parents (at least one of them) or Japanese parents ? Your English seems to be very natural.

Re: At

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Post by galfarragem »

kiliancs wrote: post #58

In Catalan we call it arrova. It's interesting that, used as a unit of mass, the @ had different values in different places [1][2]: - Castille: 11.5002325 kg - Aragon: 12.5 kg - Catalonia: 26 pounds - Valencia: 30 pounds - Portugal: 32 pounds Apparently it's still used as a unit of measure in Spain and South America, for example for oranges [2] and cocaine [3]. [1] http://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrova [2] http://es.wi…

Still a standard in South Portuguese countryside to measure livestock weight. 15kg=1 arroba

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Post by ulber »

In Finnish it is also informally known as "miukumauku", which refers to the cat-like appearance of the symbol (long tail). This name isn't very common anymore.

Re: At

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Post by vertex-four »

vacri wrote: post #41
thought_alarm wrote: post #35

I can think of a few English pictograms on the standard keyboard: ^ = Hat * = Star # = Hash ~ = Squiggle { = Curly

I don't see what 'hash' is a picture of. There is 'cross-hatching' in illustration, but that's not the same word (and it's specifically cross-hatching, not just hatching, where the lines generally align). Otherwise 'hash' is either a meat dish or a recreational drug, neither of which look much like #.

Indeed. If anything, it should be called "waffle".

Re: At

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Post by andruby »

ma2rten wrote: post #34
arrrg wrote: post #7

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…

The Dutch one "money tail" is more widespread than "at", I would say.

Do you mean "monkey tail" ("apenstaart")? I forgot about that one. I haven't heard it in years in Belgium.

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Post by Fice »

prostoalex wrote: post #48
gk1 wrote: post #2

I believe in Russian it's called "Sobachka", or "Doggy." (Correct me if I'm wrong.)

Also кряказябла

"Кракозябра" is a more common spelling, means any strange character. The plural "кракозябры" often refers to a text interpreted in a wrong character encoding.

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Post by dmitrypopov »

huhtenberg wrote: post #68
prostoalex wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also кряказябла

... which is just a funny, made-up word. Spelling varies, I heard the "krakozyabra" version the most.

I believe "krakozyabra" is used for the symbols in incorrect encoding. The only word that I ever heard for "at" is "собака" (pronounced as suh-buh-kuh)

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Post by danmaz74 »

acangiano wrote: post #15
arrrg wrote: post #7

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…

In Italian, "chiocciola" and "chiocciolina" are definitely the most common.

Agreed. And to nitpick on the article for the non-Italian speakers: The pronunciation is "kee-o-cho-la”, no "chee-o-cho-la" :D
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