France Has A Name For The @ Sign

from the arobase? dept

Because we've all been dying for a new word from the French, they've sat around deciding that "at" simply isn't an acceptable way to refer to the @ sign. So, from now on, please refer to @ as arobase. About the only potential use I can see of this is for people posting comments publicly who want to avoid spam scrapers and want to be you arobase your domain dot com.
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  1. identicon
    AkumaX, 9 Dec 2002 @ 6:17pm

    Arobase are belong to us!

    'nuf sed.

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  2. identicon
    lorenzo, 10 Dec 2002 @ 12:26am

    chiocciola

    try and pronounce it, if you can.

    that s how we call the @ sign in Italy, literary means "snail", but luckyly we have got no bodies telling us what to use, but if I use "at" nobody gets it

    ah, forgot the www is the woo-woo-woo, which makes a funny sound to all foreigners and is very much loved, also made top of the charts in a pop song.

    Just to remind everybody the the web might be US-centric, but not all american or English speaking. Don t be surpirsed if different countries get to speak it their own peculiar way

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  3. identicon
    nobody, 10 Dec 2002 @ 2:52am

    Not new

    People call it like that already. And in Spanish it's "arroba", as I learnt in ancient Lotus 1-2-3 times

    link to this | view in thread ]

  4. identicon
    pee-air, 10 Dec 2002 @ 12:58pm

    Anchors on the speedboat of evolution

    Fuck the french. What a worthless bunch of chicken-shit, goat-smelling, back-stabbing wastes of space and oxygen.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  5. identicon
    Flatulent Monkey Society, 10 Dec 2002 @ 1:27pm

    Re: Anchors on the speedboat of evolution

    Not to forget:

    Cheese eating surrender monkeys.

    link to this | view in thread ]


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