#i'm sure that the factual history of it is more nuanced and complicated (it always is). but a quick google agrees with me.
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#ok but i don't understand the duck and the measurement? (@mygeekcorner)
You... don't understand the duck?
Next you'll say that you don't understand why this is multi-cursed:
Things the “@“ sign is named after in different European languages
#dunno if that's the ACTUAL reason. but it was my immediate first thought. and the fact that it wasn't YOUR first thought is weird.#also. though i've never heard of it before. it was pretty easy to guess that the ''measurement''-thing#is bcs they've got history with it. as in. they put @ back then same as we put kg on stuff nowadays.#and that was something that came about from their measurement-word beginning with ''a''#i'm sure that the factual history of it is more nuanced and complicated (it always is). but a quick google agrees with me.#so @ is old enough and well-established enough as a ''unit of measurement'' that the symbol got the same name as the unit.#but only in the ''general area where it was used historically'' which is ''around Spain''#history#languages#laughing#culture
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