I fpund out Russian people don’t ever call this symbol @ “at” - as it should be read. Instead they call it “sobaka” - a dog and I don’t get it why. It’s such a bizzare name for it! How can one take this @ for a “dog”???

The 1980’s Soviet computers used to depict @ in some different way so that its “tail” was upwards. It looked a bit like a dog, I guess. Check it out yourself, though:

Ha-ha, really looks like a dog’s tail

myaau - 12 November 2011 01:49 AM

I fpund out Russian people don’t ever call this symbol @ “at” - as it should be read. Instead they call it “sobaka” - a dog and I don’t get it why. It’s such a bizzare name for it! How can one take this @ for a “dog”???

Seems like it was the second stage of @‘s evolution when it looked like that. But still I think it takes of imaginative thinking to consider that it looks like a DOG:

Hmm… Yea, reminds a bit of a doggy )
Anyway that’s funny cause Russia is the only part of the world where this symbol is called a “dog”. The most common names are “snail”, “monkey” or “ear”.

LOL

Wow! Cool! I didn’t know it all. Thanks.