France Has A Name For The @ Sign
from the arobase? dept
Because we’ve all been dying for a new word from the French, they’ve sat around deciding that “at” simply isn’t an acceptable way to refer to the @ sign. So, from now on, please refer to @ as arobase. About the only potential use I can see of this is for people posting comments publicly who want to avoid spam scrapers and want to be you arobase your domain dot com.
Comments on “France Has A Name For The @ Sign”
Arobase are belong to us!
‘nuf sed.
chiocciola
try and pronounce it, if you can.
that s how we call the @ sign in Italy, literary means “snail”, but luckyly we have got no bodies telling us what to use, but if I use “at” nobody gets it
ah, forgot the www is the woo-woo-woo, which makes a funny sound to all foreigners and is very much loved, also made top of the charts in a pop song.
Just to remind everybody the the web might be US-centric, but not all american or English speaking. Don t be surpirsed if different countries get to speak it their own peculiar way
Not new
People call it like that already. And in Spanish it’s “arroba”, as I learnt in ancient Lotus 1-2-3 times
Anchors on the speedboat of evolution
Fuck the french. What a worthless bunch of chicken-shit, goat-smelling, back-stabbing wastes of space and oxygen.
Re: Anchors on the speedboat of evolution
Not to forget:
Cheese eating surrender monkeys.