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Lugubert
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Message 17 of 41

25 July 2006 at 3:02pm | IP Logged

Iversen wrote:

In Danish that symbol is always called "snabel a" (literally "(elephant) trunk a").

Anything weirder?

Rather official in Sweden as well. I resisted for quite some time, preferring "kanelbulle" ('cinnamon bun"), which is a spiral thingy. http://www.jerkstrands.se/sortiment/kanelbulle.htm <drooling>
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Message 18 of 41

25 July 2006 at 4:47pm | IP Logged

in dutch "apestaart" monkey tail
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rubi_perez
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Message 19 of 41

27 October 2007 at 12:01pm | IP Logged

In Bulgaria we call it "kliomba" or "maimunsko a"(monkey a)
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pirx
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Message 20 of 41

27 October 2007 at 12:56pm | IP Logged

Chung wrote:

One of my Hungarian friends called @ "csiga" (snail) when he dictated his email address to me.

I've heard "csiga" once or twice but it's not generally used. Hungarians call @ "kukac" which means worm.
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ElfoEscuro
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Message 21 of 41

27 October 2007 at 4:23pm | IP Logged

The Japanese call it "ナルト" which refers to a spiral object.
The Koreans call it "골뱅이" which means "snail".
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silentlearner
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Message 22 of 41

28 October 2007 at 8:18am | IP Logged

In Romanian it's called arond.Too bad it's not funny.
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epingchris
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Message 23 of 41

04 November 2007 at 2:12am | IP Logged

Looks like it resembles a wide variety of animals.
In Mandarin it's "xiao lao shu" (little mouse)
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M. Medialis
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Message 24 of 41

04 November 2007 at 3:19am | IP Logged

Is my katakana knowledge completely off, or do they actually call the @ "naruto"?

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