Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols
From Eric The Read <ems...@mail.uccs.edu>
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· 15 Jan 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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Christoph Schindler <csc...@cg.tuwien.ac.at> writes: [in reference to '@'] > I always thought that english speaking people would refer to it as > spider monkey? > Does anyone know this term or is it just my illusion? I can't say I've *ever* heard `spider monkey' used to refer to the character '@'. Unless you're just drawing by analogy to Austrian, how do you arrive at that name? -=Eric
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