In Russia we call “@“ symbol “a dog”. I always wonder why

Belorussians call it “slime” though

It looks like a snail. Slime makes sense.

In German you can call it "staple monkey" ("Klammeraffe") or "monkey swing" ("Affenschaukel)".

I call it an "at" but ok.

We call it crazy a

Greeks call it Duck 🦆

we're all just poorly designed neural networks attaching random labels to random things to fight about it afterwards

@norman70688 done

@Benedikt wat

Never heard anyone call it either lol

@Krokoklemme It's not used in programming or spelling e-mail adresses, but especially older people only know it as that (secretaries and law people sometimes call it "Ad-Zeichen" with "Ad" being pronounced German, as it comes from the Latin word).
This comes from the fact that the symbol is much older than the internet, with it being used at least since the late medieval times.

@Benedikt welp TIL

In swedish we call it "trunk-a" ("snabel-a").

In Dutch we call it monkey tail (apenstaartje).. never thought of it this way though. Weird...

We call it "monkey a" in Bulgaria

We call it arroba, in Brazil. It's a unit of weight.

In dutch its a monkey tail

It is "worm" in hungary

It's a donut. 🍩

In Polish we call it a 'monkey'

ok, interesting thread

although at least one comment in this thread has to be a joke, just by chance...

In Croatian we use the English ones.
Mostly "at", but some older people use "monkey".