Yes, I can imagine that some native French speaking people don't know the meaning of "at", spoken for them as "èt", but the sign "@" is ar(r)obas(e) in French. In Dutch it is called "apestaartje" (monkey tale), but "at" is more commonly used...
Met vriendelijke groeten, Salutations distinguées, Kind Regards, DRIES FEYS CORPORATE SERVICES • Specialist Software Developer TVH GROUP NV Brabantstraat 15 • BE-8790 WAREGEM T +32 56 43 42 11 • F +32 56 43 44 88 • www.tvh.com On 18 November 2013 16:02, anne-ology <[email protected]> wrote: > Who doesn't know the word ampersand ... > who now days doesn't know the at-sign ... > and the tilde is one of the marks, in the Romance languages, > placed over some of their letters to distinguish meanings ... > > > > > From: Brian Barker <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 1:35 PM > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request - Categories for special > characters > To: [email protected] > > > At 17:35 16/11/2013 +0000, Toki "Jonathon" Kantoor wrote: > >> Under what circumstances would one be using glyphs they know not the name >> of? >> > > Many people do not know the name "ampersand". No-one knows what "@" is > called. Some people think "~" is a tilde. (Hint: it's a swung dash.) > > ;^) > > Brian Barker > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- **** DISCLAIMER **** http://www.tvh.com/newen2/emaildisclaimer/default.html "This message is delivered to all addressees subject to the conditions set forth in the attached disclaimer, which is an integral part of this message." -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
