German pronunciation of "@" in email address Thread poster: Stanislaw Czech, MCIL CL
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Hi,
I appologize for writing in English.
I cannot find information how is pronounced in German @ sign in email address.
I will be very grateful for information
Best Regards
Stanislaw
| | | | Jeff Whittaker 
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| Stanislaw Czech, MCIL CL
United Kingdom
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TOPIC STARTER SITE LOCALIZER | Thank you very much Jeff for your answer | Feb 2, 2010 |
I am sorry for posting this post on the wrong forum - I was under impression that "Pronunciation" forum is used for English pronunciation only, hence my choice of German forum.
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| | | | Nicole Schnell
United States
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In memoriam | @ is "at", even in German :-) | Feb 3, 2010 |
You will never hear "Klammeraffe" or silly expressions like that in any business environment or in the media. That's like calling it "thingy", "thingamajig", or "whatchacallit".
You asked for the pronunciation, not cutesy colloquial synonyms, I assume? The pronunciation is the same as in English.
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Nicole Schnell wrote:
The pronunciation is the same as in English.
Except with a heavy German accent, it's more likely to sound like "et" (as in "wet")
[Edited at 2010-02-03 06:43 GMT]
| | | | | Some call it Strudel! | Feb 3, 2010 |
Some of my colleagues call it Strudel as it looks like the famous Austrian pastry!
| | | | Nicole Schnell
United States
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In memoriam
That's how we called it in the early nineties. Back then when this symbol couldn't be found on German Macintosh keyboards and still had to be copied from the special characters table.
| | | | Brian Young
United States
Local time: 02:53
Danish to English
| elephant trunk | Feb 10, 2010 |
In Danish they say "snabel a", pronounced something like "snayble a", a as in hat. Snabel is an elephants trunk. I have not lived in Denmark since 1982, so when I heard this the first time I could hardly believe it. That might have changed since. Danes are very prone to use English words, so they might use another term now. Any current Danes out there with a siggestion?
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