@?
What is @?
OK. Here's the latest in-depth "dip" (Refer to the "Deep post" about a week ago) discussion.
You know how all text symbols have a certain name.
"." is for period.
"," is for comma.
This is a hyphen --> -.
And that's a slash --> /, but what the "hey" is a @?
Why is it only referred to as the "at symbol"? Its proficiency these past few years with the cyberrevolution has been massive, so why not give it a proper name? Or at least a more well-known one. My limited research via Google has indicated that its only reference name, plus that from personal experience, is, in fact, as an "at symbol". Why even include symbol within the name? No fair. Dammit, even ^ has a name: a caret!
I say it's about time we stand up for @.
Why hasn't that common symbol acquired its own formal identity yet? Time will tell.
Discuss.
Lateh's...
-djchaco
OK. Here's the latest in-depth "dip" (Refer to the "Deep post" about a week ago) discussion.
You know how all text symbols have a certain name.
"." is for period.
"," is for comma.
This is a hyphen --> -.
And that's a slash --> /, but what the "hey" is a @?
Why is it only referred to as the "at symbol"? Its proficiency these past few years with the cyberrevolution has been massive, so why not give it a proper name? Or at least a more well-known one. My limited research via Google has indicated that its only reference name, plus that from personal experience, is, in fact, as an "at symbol". Why even include symbol within the name? No fair. Dammit, even ^ has a name: a caret!
I say it's about time we stand up for @.
Why hasn't that common symbol acquired its own formal identity yet? Time will tell.
Discuss.
Lateh's...
-djchaco
posted by djchaco @ 10:45 AM
1 Comments:
At 12:35 PM,
ivAn said…
Hey chaco, i have something else to add:
In spanish, this damned "at symbol" is called "arroba"... where the hell does that come from? dunno... not even the Spanish Royal Academy has an idea...
So, to keep this going, i vote that we call it the same way in english, let's make it official, the "@" symbol, should be named from now on the following: "aroba"... yes... this time with just one "r", for english's sake...
Yes, i know it may sound weird, just pronounce it any way you want to... it doesn't have any sense, just like "caret" does... doesn't matter, let's just name it that way... it doesn't have to be interesting... it just needs a name!
So...
"@" symbol, here is your name: "aroba"...
"aroba", this is your symbol: "@"...
go ahead... get acquainted...
that's it... my two cents...
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