Re: Off-topic: @

Frank Ellermann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.rfc822
Organization <URL:http://purl.net/xyzzy>
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Paul Hoffman wrote:
 
> <http://herodios.com/atsign.html>

Nice.  I'm not sure about the explanation for the German word
"Klammeraffe" (hanging monkey), so far I thought that it's a
pun:  "@" looks a bit like a narrow "(a)", and that would be
"Klammer-a(ffe)" or parenthesised a(pe)

<http://dict.leo.org/?search=klammeraffe>  Bye, Frank
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