32.2277, Sum: Update on Names for the @ Sign in your Language

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Subject: 32.2277, Sum: Update on Names for the @ Sign in your Language

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Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2021 03:41:59
From: Karen Chung [karchung at ntu.edu.tw]
Subject: Update on Names for the @ Sign in your Language

 
Thank you to everybody who responded to the survey questionnaire on names for
the @ sign in your language! (In fact the survey is still open if you'd still
like to respond: https://forms.gle/oDmzgJu4twz1Wwyw6). 

87 people responded to the survey, providing data from over 25 languages.

In summary, it seems that names for the @ sign have largely remained quite
stable since the original 1996 survey. The one change is that in several
countries, especially Germanic ones, people in general and younger people in
particular now tend to use English "at" more often than the original "cute"
native name, like German "Klammeraffe" ('spider monkey') and Dutch
"apenstaartje" ('little monkey tail'). 

Original post: https://linguistlist.org/issues/32.1942/

Results of the original survey:
https://linguistlist.org/issues/7/7-968/#1
https://linguistlist.org/issues/7/7-1177/#1
https://linguistlist.org/issues/11/11-1970/#1

The main purpose of the current survey was to update existing data on names
for the @ sign for an article in Chinese I wrote for the magazine English
Island, accessible here:

A snail? A bread roll? An elephant's trunk? The little @ mouse scurries around
the globe
像蝸牛？捲麵包？還是象鼻？四處鼠竄的@符號
https://www.eisland.com.tw/Main.php?stat=a_FKst4Os&mid=36

You may be asked to register to access the article, but it's free and there's
no obligation.
Feedback welcome.

Karen Steffen Chung
Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures
National Taiwan University
karchung at ntu.edu.tw
http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/Karen/Karen_Chung_publications.htm
 

Linguistic Field(s): Lexicography



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