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In German you can call it "staple monkey" ("Klammeraffe") or "monkey swing" ("Affenschaukel)".
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kiki351375ywe're all just poorly designed neural networks attaching random labels to random things to fight about it afterwards
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@Krokoklemme It's not used in programming or spelling e-mail adresses, but especially older people only know it as that (secretaries and law people sometimes call it "Ad-Zeichen" with "Ad" being pronounced German, as it comes from the Latin word).
This comes from the fact that the symbol is much older than the internet, with it being used at least since the late medieval times. -
Condor325175yIn Dutch we call it monkey tail (apenstaartje).. never thought of it this way though. Weird...
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ok, interesting thread
although at least one comment in this thread has to be a joke, just by chance... -
Quirinus7535yIn Croatian we use the English ones.
Mostly "at", but some older people use "monkey".
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