Re: Naes of ASCII Symbols

In article <34B...@cg.tuwien.ac.at>, Christoph Schindler
<csc...@cg.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
> 
> Ilmari Karonen wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> My arts teacher told me the same story. It has something to do with
> calligraphy
> (whatever that is ;-)
> 
> > 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.
> >
> In Austria we call this a "Klammeraffe" lit. clasping monkey. That again
> gives us
> the association with "Meerkatze". "Katze" again is german for cat, but a
> "Meerkatze"
> is a small monkey with huge eyes and a very long tail.
> 
> > 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". =)
> >
> 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?
> 
> enjoying your group and your skills, hopthrisC (native Austrian *pride*)

No, a meercat (Suricata suricatta) is a little rodent-like creature.

http://www.selu.com/~bio/wildlife/mammal/meerkat/meerkat03.html
http://www.rit.edu/~jpl6314/meerkat.html

A spider monkey (Ateles - I think) is a kind of monkey

http://www.hensonrobinsonzoo.org/home_k.html#cards

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