Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site boring.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!mcvax!boring!jack From: jack@boring.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: question about names for symbols Message-ID: <6482@boring.UUCP> Date: Fri, 28-Jun-85 12:05:00 EDT Article-I.D.: boring.6482 Posted: Fri Jun 28 12:05:00 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jul-85 07:47:53 EDT References: <2041@iddic.UUCP> <765@kuling.UUCP> Reply-To: jack@boring.UUCP (Jack Jansen) Distribution: net Organization: AMOEBA project, CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 17 Apparently-To: rnews@mcvax.LOCAL It seems that all non-english speakers invent funny words for those #@^~ characters. The ones I've heard here in Holland (undoubdtedly there are others in use are: > # braedhoeg (pile of wood) tuinhekje (garden gate) or spoorwegkruis (railroad crossing) > @ kanelbulle (chanel bun ?) / oera (ear) / > / snabel-alfa (elephant's-nose-alpha ?) apestaart( ape's tail) or slingeraapje (swinging ape) Notice that especially @ and # seem to get very poetic names in different languages. Maybe I'll start calling # 'houtstapel' (pile of wood). I kind of like the name..... -- Jack Jansen, jack@mcvax.UUCP The shell is my oyster.