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- Aliasing, on 10/12/2007, -3/+97I think you mean, "ru@127.0.0.1?"
- drgordonfreeman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+32Some people are curious about the world around them. You should try it sometime.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Your thirst for knowledge astounds me.
- Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16r u @ home? :P
- distrbnce, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15Now that you've made a worthless comment? Sleep well.
- jhurshman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11All the top symbologists concur that the @ symbol is an ancient pagan representation of the sacred feminine. Of course, this truth has been violently suppressed by a conspiracy of misogynistic punctuation fanatics (the notorious RFC2821 Society) because it could destroy email as we know it!
- rjacoby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+102 minutes for fun is a good deal.
- craftyguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10"In the Czech Republic, it's "pickled herring" "
Yea, ok, what do they call '&'? Fried chicken? - dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -7/+17I'm not afraid of using it at all. @ calls me up late at night, sobbing about how her boyfriend is being a dick. So I come over, "console" her, and yada yada yada, I leave her satisfied, but feeling a bit used. I'm a guy, what can I say?
- DougTanner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I work in a french city, just asked one of my co-workers what it was in french (it's obviosuly not "little snail"!). It's actually "aerobase" or "A commerciale".
- anetadmn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Just read it while you're at work getting paid. Then the 3 min. isn't a big deal!
- Monkeyget, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Language translations looks bad.
"The French often refer to it as "little snail." " mhh no, never ever heard of it. Therefore i think the other one are mostly bogus too. - nazsco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8The article is just plain simple.
head here for a better view: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sign - satan666, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8In Greece when you put two @ together "@@" it means bollocks. Like if you are in a chat room and someone says:
George Bush is sooo way smart and he is doing such a good job with the country!
The reply would be:
@@ - jrod7783, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I had a trivial pursuit question once:
What is the symbol that the French often refer to as "petit escargot"?
If I had read this article, I wouldn't have missed that question.
See, not a waste of 2 mins. That and I agree with drgordonfreeman. - IAmAI, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8"I think you mean, "ru@127.0.0.1?""
Now that is a geeky way of asking "Are you at home?".
And if you're really geeky, you would say that the above is strickly a paradoxical :P - hiway7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7There are @@s in Empire Strikes Back.
- Soapdish, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8what if my email address was littlebellybutton@kins.net ?
- pornel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Article is wrong. In Poland '@' is called monkey (no stupid names for '&' though).
BTW: "RU@~?" - ryansmith18, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"After 30 seconds of intense thought, he decided to separate the name of his intended recipient and their location by using the "@" symbol."
rofl. - kilps, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6"# In South Africa, it means "monkey's tail" "
Well that's were I live and I havn't heard that before ... unless i is part of one of our other 10 languages besides english, but 9 of those are purely african and the other would never have something like that - and this is a western charecter, right?
Sounds like it has been sucked out of someones thumb ... - JoshuaWood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5according to wikipedia it is :
Other names include: about; acosta; ampersat or asperand (compare ampersand); amphora; ape; apothrope; arobase; atgry; atmark; cabbage; cat; cinnabun or cinnamon bun; commercial symbol; cyclone; each; mercantile symbol; rose; schnable;
A commonly accepted theory is that the symbol is derived from the Latin preposition ad, which means about with numerals. However, no document showing this usage has been presented.
A similar idea is that @ is the abbreviation of the Greek preposition ana (%u03B1%u03BD%u03AC), which means 'at the rate of' when used with numerals, exactly its modern commercial usage.
Of course your friend could have been the editor. - djg38, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9The @ symbol was the death of @Home.
- Homunculiheaded, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I guess it's not surprising being on an HP site but they fail to mention the company who actually first made use of the @ symbol for email, which is BBN Technologies in Cambridge. They're also the same people who developed ARPANET, TELNET, and some of the earlier quantum cryptography networks. Their a surprising important organization considering how relatively unknown they are in the general public.
- bndocksnt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5heh, i'm not even offended that i had to go to the hp site for it, even though they still haven't replaced my defective battery on my laptop. oh well, now i've been placated by the history of the @ symbol. completely fair trade :P
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5[18:43] Wikipedia isn't mere news, it's knowledge, eternal, unchanging...
[18:41] Wikipedia is not news, it is knowledge.
[17:25] Wikipedia is an online dictionary.
[17:24] Wikipedia IS TEH ROX0RZ!!!1111
[17.23] Wikipedia is an online dictionary. - aldebaran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm french and like the other guy I never heard of "little snail" for @. We use Arobase or ''A'' commercial.
- scotty79, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Poles call this symbol "monkey".
maria[monkey]smith.com :-) - MrMysterious, on 10/12/2007, -7/+10I like the @ symbol, but I'm always afraid of using it outside of e-mail addresses for fear of people thinking that I'm either a) some net nerd or b) misinterpreting what I'm saying.
- y2048, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Actually, in Dutch, "@" is known as "apestaartje", which translates to a small monkey's tail.
And don't parts of South Africa speak some bastardised version of Dutch? - distrbnce, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I personally use the @ on a daily basis to represent "schnable", whatever that may be.
I think it's the meaning everyone should Shift 2. - UltraNurd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3My one brush with geek fame: walking into a bathroom as Ray Tomlinson walked out. Weird, I know.
- leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4On the TRS-80 Color Computer, well before the internet, the @ symbol was called the 'at symbol' and used when positioning the cursor at a particular spot on the screen.
- Jarasmen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Exactly. I have no idea where did that ""little cat" or "pig's ear."" come from. I think they made it up.
- leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I've come across a number of people that use the @ to mean about.
- kilps, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3We call it Afrikaans ... which is based on Dutch, English, German and more ... so it is quite possible, but I find it, strange :)
- yokat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"The Turks lovingly describe it as 'ear.' "
In Turkish "at" means "horse" but the pronunciation of @ means "meat". - TeamTrash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well, I'm Danish and "elephant's trunk" is most definitely correct. Moving to the states several years ago I realized that apparently "elephant's trunk" was not what it was called here. Figured that one out REAL fast and not without looking a moron first ;) Oh well, que cera cera...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7All hail Ray Tomlinson!
- jordan314, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4My girlfriend uses @ all the time to stand for 'about', like "what do you think @ this?"
But I always read it as "what do you think at this?" It drives me nuts.
Can anyone tell if @ is a legitimate abbreviation for about? - DubbleA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Where u @?" (Boost Mobile)
- Rummey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yea, I'd hit th@
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1In Brazil we call it the football.
- JoshuaWood, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Well, it's would not be so widespread had he not decided to use it for email addresses. Not sure why you're being modded down though.
- taxicab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Reminds me of that Beck song....Were it's @....
- djdole, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Additionally, just because the article was released by HP (a tech company) doesn’t immediately mean it's technology either.
- antdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Also, see http://www.herodios.com/atsign.htm ...
- vtwin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The official word in french to describe this symbol is "arobas" not "aerobase".
- robertc1964, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Im @ ~ Swinton's
- dakelv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Similarly, in Chinese, the @ sign is not called the "mouse sign". The author probably was making things up. The "mouse sign" in China refers to the cursor.
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