The "@" character

[mister-mist.livejournal.com]

What is the russian name of the "@" character? Is this character used for anything in Russian writing (besides e-mail addresses)?

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[alamar.livejournal.com]

It's referenced as "собака".

No, it is not.

[dasha.livejournal.com]

never actually knew why, but the Russian for "@" is "собака" (sobaka = "dog") :) but I prefer to say "at"...

Can't really think of where else it's being used (if it is).... =(

[shalapanova.livejournal.com]

It is.

At least when one is writing something like "х@й" in Inretnet.

[ex-khutshur106.livejournal.com]

usually we call it "собака" ("dog"). Some Russians also like calling it "кракозябра" (word without meaning as abracadabra).

[wire-shock.livejournal.com]

I suppose @ is used in such contexts only because it is there on the computer keyboard, along with &, *, #, ^. Otherwise we (Russians) wouldn't use it at all except in e-mail addresses.

[shalapanova.livejournal.com]

remark is accepted. ;-)

Thank you for the comment.

[ginger-tulip.livejournal.com]

we call it "собака" or "обезьянка" (monkey).

and it isn't used for anything else in Russian writing.

[laertid.livejournal.com]

I thought обезьянка is @ in Hebrew

[oblomov-jerusal.livejournal.com]

In Hebrew it is shtrudel

[ginger-tulip.livejournal.com]

actually, in Russian it used as "обезьянка" quite rarely.

[laertid.livejournal.com]

:) Sorry then. Аnyway, I've never heard "обезьянка" from a Russian native speaker.

also

[lenny-goofoff.livejournal.com]

плюшка (some kind of pastry, pretzel-shaped)

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[khathi.livejournal.com]

Never heard before -- all references that I've seen or heard were to "собака" only.

[khathi.livejournal.com]

It is almost universally referred as "собака", and if the story that I've heard is true, the origin of this name is in one of once popular text-based adventure/role-playing games of so called "rogue-like" type, most probably ADOM, where player's dog was represented on the schreen by this character.

[padruka1988.livejournal.com]

@ I thought it just represented as a dog lying down with its tail wrapped around it. And yes, it is собака... Like the other 10 people said.

[pacifik.livejournal.com]

What is the reason for giving right answer second (third, fourth ... etc) time in the same thread ? : )
And what is the reason for inventing "right answers" and using rare words ?
To show every one how helpfull you are ? : )

[rowaasr13.livejournal.com]

Well, considering that ADOM is relatively recent rogue-like game, I'm pretty sure that if this story is true, it was some older game.

[rowaasr13.livejournal.com]

Same here. I just dislike "собака".

[l-ionella.livejournal.com]

Surely, this symbol has been used in Russian long before Inet and e-mails and computers!
(don't you listen to the young ones here - lol)
The "@" is called "а коммерческое". I can't explain in details the usage of it, but the name is used, though very seldom, in computer slang, too. Yes, it is almost always mentioned as "собачка" at present, but it was not the original name.

[ginger-tulip.livejournal.com]

exactly!

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[apakin.livejournal.com]

дуля!

[khathi.livejournal.com]

Well, it might be even original "Adventure" -- I'm not a big fan of that type of games. ^_^

[trepang.livejournal.com]

used in smileys like :-@, but i believe it to be common

[spiderhood.livejournal.com]

I have. I've heard it from one guy. Yes, it's not that popular ;)

[trepang.livejournal.com]

can also be used as a substitution for a, but this is a sort of written slang: М@ша

[wasm.livejournal.com]

In business or serious texts it is possible to tell "service sign".

[ex-eugzol340.livejournal.com]

I've never heard =)

[whitest-owl.livejournal.com]

The game you referring to is called "Rogue".
That's why whole class of games called rogue-like :)

[lloorren.livejournal.com]

D: DOG?

[arvi.livejournal.com]

I also say "at" (эт).

[mithgol.livejournal.com]

Wrong.

In ADoM, the player is represented by @

[http://users.livejournal.com/_shortcircuit_/]

Actually, there are people who don't know that @ has other names except "собака" :) That's why I usually say "собака" for @, "and" for & etc.

[nbuwe.livejournal.com]

I never heard it called "а коммерческое", only "коммерческое at" (my СМ ЭВМ manual even spells it as "коммерческое ЭТ").

[maddogz.livejournal.com]

коммерческое эт

[khathi.livejournal.com]

Perhap probaby. ;) As I said, I'm no big fan of this type.

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[glorfindeil.livejournal.com]

"Ухо" забыл

[ekeme-ndiba.livejournal.com]

By the way, «эт» means "dog" in Tartar :-)

so you said

[lenny-goofoff.livejournal.com]

I've made it up? Rare it may be, but we used that word. And yes, I hope to be of some help.
What's wrong with it?

[asher-kat.livejournal.com]

In German it is called monkey too (Klammeraffe)...

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[khathi.livejournal.com]

It's quite rare use, IIRC.