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Pawel Krakowiak

Behind that weird subject is hidden a question directed towards the folks from non-English speaking countries (like myself). In English the @ sign is read as at, which makes sense when you read aloud - somebody@codeproject.com - as somebody at codeproject.com. But in Polish (and I don't know where it comes from, or rather from whom) the @ sign is pronounced as malpa which literally means... a monkey. ;) What is the meaning of the @ sign in your native language? Is it a funny one?

Miszou

# = pound (in American) = hash (in English) It can lead to some interesting conversations... "Hey dude, where do I put the hash?"

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Lost User

Funny, we (the English) also know it as the monkey tail. Did we get that off the Poles during the war?

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Abu Mami

Here in Israel it's commonly referred to as a "shtrudel" (strudel) since it looks like a cross-section of the famous Vienna(?) pastry.

Abu Mami

# is pound or number in American in Israel it's called a "sulamit" (a small ladder)

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Jim Crafton

gdzie jest moje zielony malpa?! :) (that's the extent of my ability to put together a polish sentence based on my limited grammar).

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Steve Mayfield

gdzie jest moje zielony malpa? = where is my green Coming? (according to google translate) :confused:

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Abu Mami

Well of course, he forgot the @

Jim Crafton

It should be "where is my green monkey", but you need a special "L" character, one with a slash through it.

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Alsvha

Danes call a @ for "snable a" - translated into "trunk a" (trunk like an elephant).

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Miszou wrote:

# = pound (in American)

No, # is the number sign.

Abu Mami

What do you expect from a country that insists on sticking an extra letter in a perfectly good word - color (colour)

Abu Mami

Sorry, I grew up there, and we often referred to it as the pound sign, and the number sign.

Joan M

In Spanish "ARROBA" and in Catalan "ARROVA": A like Arnold R like Rocket R like Rocket O like harOld B like Barcelona and A again like Arnold... Some information more from the wikipedia in Spanish: It seems that is a weight unit: more or less is 25 pounds. It seems also that in the keyboards it appeared as in the old typewriters it was there. And it seems that was in the old typewriters as that symbol was used for represent the AREA of something. It seems also that in English it is used in order to substitute the AT preposition. some languages call it: - monkey tail. - snail. - little mouse. - A with trumpet. - Trade mark. :doh: - A surrounded. - Cat tail. - Little duck. - Slug. - Rolled alpha. - Monkey. - Little dog. - Rose. The link into the Wikipedia I've found is in Spanish, but if you want to look at it: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arroba_(s%C3%ADmbolo)[^]

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Diego Moita

In Portuguese it means "arroba", too. It was an old unit of weight measure, used mostly in wholesale of raw food, farming, etc. The only place where it is used today is for weighting cattle.

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Maximilien

or ... "Hey dude, I have a pound of hash in my pack, where do I put it?"

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Ro0ke

It's also refered to as pound. It's used in most automated telephone systems.

kinar

interestingly enough I (American) read that sentance as: "No, pound is the number sign"

NormDroid

Well in 19 years of IT, I've gotta say the monkeys tail is new to me.