Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols
Steve Barnard (ste...@megafauna.com) wrote: : Veronica Karlsson wrote: : > > As I have seen it used "@" simply means "at". : > : > The story I heard is that it _is_ the word "at". After being written : > many many times (don't remember why, I think it had something to do with : > prices) the "t" curled up around the "a" until it became a symbol of its : > own. Indeed. What I've been wondering, after seeing the lists in this thread, is whether using various feline expressions for this character is really just a Finnish peculiarity. I mean, it does look like a little cat with a long tail. In Finnish the real name is rather meaningless (there isn't even an exact translation for "at" in Finnish) and thus virtually unknown. Almost everyone I know refers to it as "Cat's tail", "Pussycat" or just "Meow". =) -- __,,,------._ ,-/| `-. Ilmari Karonen (ilt...@sci.fi) ^ All opinions expressed /, '\, `. ,|"-;;.__ http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/ | in this message are my / ' 4(_,-_,-"_,/.' `'--' ,------------------------' own. If you want me to "`-(_,-"" `-' (,' itz | make some for you too, you should pay for them!
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102ffd,2e58d5f13e65ed35 X-Google-Attributes: gid102ffd,public X-Google-Thread: f996b,d8ba9ee032dffd44 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: 113841,2e58d5f13e65ed35 X-Google-Attributes: gid113841,public From: ilt...@sci.fi (Ilmari Karonen) Subject: Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols Date: 1998/01/11 Message-ID: <69922j$55...@tron.sci.fi>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 315131172 Distribution: world References: <34A...@ares.informatik.uni-ulm.de> <34B...@megafauna.com> Followup-To: alt.ascii-art,alt.usage.english,alt.english.usage Organization: (dis)Order of the Holy Spoon (or whatever) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,alt.usage.english,alt.english.usage
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