meaning of "@"

[chronogamer28 0]

In USA, we just call it 'at' (i.e. orintex176 at gmail dot com (BTW: that's not a real e-mail address)) All the animals here have their own names.

[Sundari Harmony 0]

Woah, that is kind of odd, I never knew it was called anything else, I suppose I just didn't think about it. I personally just think of it as the "At sign" *shrug*

[dcy1405241470 0]

Hi, Do you know how @ be called in China?

it called "circle A"

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Not called "circle A" it just call "at", i am a Chinese and i know it,

i offen use @ but i doesnt know what is it means

[StaryAngel 0]

I'll stick with the meaning "at". It makes more sense in an email address. You won't see someone's email look like this : someone'hogs tail'hotmail.com

[marijnnn 0]

well, it should be AT because obviously, your mailbox is at the hotmail, yahoo, gmail,... serverthat's where it is. like you say: i'm at home. i'm at the race,...but why that symbol? i don't know.here in belgium, we call it 'apestaart' which means 'tail of a monkey', hehe.but then again, most IT persons just say AT

[antitoxic 0]

yeah and I think that it must me "at" but in every language it will be translated in a different way..

[dcy1405241470 0]

yeah and I think that it must me "at" but in every language it will be translated in a different way..

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Hmmm! i am agree with you, "@"is only a sign, Not will it translated in a different language,but you can know it means just like 1+1=2,everyone understand it

[kc8yff 0]

If someone who has never used email before saw the "@" sign, I wonder what they would think it meant.

[prolifik 0]

I searched for it in the web and what i've found is that it's called a "commercial at-sign". Don't know if that's 100% correct. I myself call it "at-sign" coz that's what i hear and read what other people call it. It's quite interesting to know that people from other countries have their own names for this symbol.

[Trekkie101 0]

I can it the "AT" as its just kinda a name it was called and it stuck, everyone i know calls it "AT" so thats fine for me, no matter if its a monkeys tail or parts of coconuts i dont care

[Loser 0]

Here in Finland we also call it a "Meow", as came from the "Cat tail".

[mrc 0]

@ is a very old symbol, derived from thelatin preposition "ad" (at).im portuguese so in Portugal it denotes a weight of about25 pounds, the weight and the symbol are called "arroba".

[Mopperkont 0]

Holland: two monkeys

Actually, we call it a Monkey's Tail.

Well at least the older generations do. Us youngsters call it an "at" just as the rest of the world...

[szupie 0]

Hmm... In Hong Kong, we just pronounce it as "at". This might be different in different parts of China, though. The reason why we (Hong Kong people) pronounce it "at" might be that it was a British Colony, and we just used their way of saying it, and haven't changed.

[Twistie 0]

In Australia it is commonly refferred to as 'AT'. However, Its full and correct name in Austarlia is an Alpha curl.