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TIL that the earliest appearance of the @ symbol is from 1345 (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/til@lemmy.ca

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[–] pec@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@ used to signify French "à" ("at") from a 1674 protocol from a Swedish court (Arboga rådhusrätt och magistrat)

This makes sense considering that in french "a" and "à" are two common and very different words and "@" might be faster to write in cursive. In the doc it looks like the writer made the "𝓪" ending at the bottom right and, without lifting his pen, added the diacritic.

[–] Skunk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

The last time I said « at » for @ in French, the person literally wrote at.

Like : name at domain.com

I believe this person also say « tiret du 8 » instead of underscore.

Anyway, now I have to say arobase instead of at and it is annoying.