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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?
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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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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gdzie jest moje zielony malpa? = where is my green Coming? (according to google translate) :confused:
Steve
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gdzie jest moje zielony malpa? = where is my green Coming? (according to google translate) :confused:
Steve
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gdzie jest moje zielony malpa? = where is my green Coming? (according to google translate) :confused:
Steve
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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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?
Danes call a @ for "snable a" - translated into "trunk a" (trunk like an elephant).
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# is pound or number in American in Israel it's called a "sulamit" (a small ladder)
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# = 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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Miszou wrote:
# = pound (in American)
No, # is the number sign.
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At least your answer makes sense. The UK answer makes a hash of it!
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Miszou wrote:
# = pound (in American)
No, # is the number sign.
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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?
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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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?
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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# = 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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or ... "Hey dude, I have a pound of hash in my pack, where do I put it?"
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Miszou wrote:
# = pound (in American)
No, # is the number sign.
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Miszou wrote:
# = pound (in American)
No, # is the number sign.
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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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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?
Anyone else refer to ! as "Bang" rather than "exclamation mark"? The best bit is today I noticed one of those big expensive signs made for my company had a glaring grammatical error in it and to protect my arse I have changed the company name to MonkeyNose: MonkeyNoses' ethical trading policy is central to it's ethos.
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Anyone else refer to ! as "Bang" rather than "exclamation mark"? The best bit is today I noticed one of those big expensive signs made for my company had a glaring grammatical error in it and to protect my arse I have changed the company name to MonkeyNose: MonkeyNoses' ethical trading policy is central to it's ethos.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.(Winston Churchill)
No, that's a Unix thing. Darned lazy bastages.
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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?
Pawel Krakowiak wrote:
What is the meaning of the @ sign in your native language?
My native language is English, so it is "at" :laugh: I'm just kidding around with you Pawel :-D
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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 wrote:
pastry
Mmmmm, sounds good right now :-D
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Anyone else refer to ! as "Bang" rather than "exclamation mark"? The best bit is today I noticed one of those big expensive signs made for my company had a glaring grammatical error in it and to protect my arse I have changed the company name to MonkeyNose: MonkeyNoses' ethical trading policy is central to it's ethos.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.(Winston Churchill)
I haven't heard "bang" since my days at AT&T. Our e-mail system had a full route from some master server to our account. ( Server1!Server2!Server3!...!UserID ) It was also called "bat", but then when Windows took over bat meant a batch file ;P <memory lane> bang bash - backslash and the shell scripts bat ksh crontab kill -9 whois finger ISN - the messed up pre tcp/ip network we were on over time pay green screen terminals </memory lane> Ok! I'm back.