h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Why is there not a groovy name for the symbol @ in English? The
Germans call it klammeraffe, (spider monkey), the Dutch, apestaartje
(monkey's tail), Danes and Norwegians refer to it as grisehale (pig's
tail) or snabel ("with an elephant's trunk"). Finnish people call it
kissanhanta (cat's tail), which sometimes goes one step further to
become miukumauku - the meow sign! Hungarians see it as the worm or
maggot (kukac) and the Thai word translates as "the wiggling worm-like
character". Czechs call it zavinac, which is a rollmop herring, and the
Hebrew term is strudel, the famous Viennese apple pastry. Swedes use
kanelbulle (cinnamon bun), while the French go with escargot which
translates as (snail) fairly frequently used around the world. Th@'s
enough of th@, maybe there is an Americanism I am not aware of?

 

We use @ as "At" or (In publishing) "Curl-At")

Which country do "we" come from if may be so presumptious. You may note I use the @ symbol as at in my sub heading.

I alopogise (Spelling incorrect purposefully)
I'm from London, England. Help any?

I am trying to discover, invent, whatever, a groovy name for the @ symbol in English

a-snail?

The French use the snail. How about the fetter (a chain or bond) Still thinking

Hmmm... this is a tough one.

Yes but diamonds are caused by pressure. The harder the pressure the bigger the diamond

Shouldn't this be a user page and not a journal entry? Very informative stuff here.

I presented it for rejection a few weeks ago. I post my stuff twice. I don't believe many people read the items waiting for rejection. I remain one of the great ignored. Thanks for the comment.

Personally I prefer the stuff waiting for rejection or the user pages over the officially accepted guide entries. I don't personally like stuff that's over polished.

That link to the index you put in your comment about curate eggs. How can I make that a clickable link at the top of my page. Like the see who's logged on link. if that hasn't confused you nothing will. I copied yours but it just came out as type. check my page if you like and you will see what I mean.

Try this:

h2g2-A2Z!

HTML doesn't work well in the forums, but if you copypaste it to your home page it should work okay.

Try this while you're at it. *smirk*

click here for ZachsMind's page

I copy/pasted both and drumroll, trumpet fanfare, they both worked. Because I'm a nice guy, sort of, I even gave you a credit.

Thank you Looneytunes. =)

Jim Lynn posted a link on my page recently. It can be found under the heading: More index fun. You may be interested ZacksMind.