Arabic-L:@ response

[Dilworth B. Parkinson]

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Date:  09 Oct 2001
From: Hossam Ibrahim <hdilinguistics at yahoo.com>
Subject: @ response

Dear Dil,
It's rather controversial.  As a native speaker of Egyptian Arabic, I
refer to the symbol saying "at" when spelling emails.  Otherwise,
there is a tendency to avoid referring to these symbols as much as
possible (@#^).  I only know the English words for them, and most of
the people use the English word when they refer me to any of these
symbols.  However, I am not sure if it is a coincident that happens
with me alone.
Regards,
Hossam

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