must there be a title

asked my friend why the @ symbol is called (spider) monkey in german and polish and they sent me this drawing

In Finnish it is/was/has been called various things relating to cats (including "miuku-mauku") for the same animal-with-long-smooth-tail reasons.

The German word they’re talking about is Klammeraffe. Which like, lbr: If you’ve got a choice between calling it At-Zeichen or Klammeraffe, why tf would you pick At-Zeichen?

I love how many languages actually looked at that symbol and saw some animal.

In Russian it's called "dog"! It looks like a sleeping dog actually.

In Italiano it's called "snail"

In Greek it's called "duckling"

It's just so cute.

[ID: a simple drawing of a small monkey with a long tail going around it, giving it the shape of an @]

Fun fact: in Romanian, a bookworm is called “şoarece de bibliotecă” which translated to “library mouse” :)

in Serbian,it is “Knjiški moljac’’ which is basically translated as Book Moth :>

In Hungarian it’s “Könyvmoly” which also translates as Book Moth. :)

In Finnish it’s “lukutoukka” which means “reading caterpillar”! ♡

In Greek, it’s “βιβλιοφάγος” which means “he/she who eats books”

this post makes me so happy :)

In Swedish you are a bokslukare ‘bookdevourer’ or a läslus ‘reading louse’.

In Japanese, I believe it’s “yomimushi” (reading bug) but i’m not sure

Reading bug sounds adorable oh my gosh

In Danish you can be a bogorm (bookworm) or læsehest (reading horse).

In German, you’re a “Leseratte”, a “reading rat” x3

In Spanish we have “rata/ratón de biblioteca” (library rat/mouse).

In Indonesian, it’s ‘kutu buku’ (book flea)

In polish it’s mól książkowy, which means book moth

Why must the slavs eat the books

They taste good

In Czech it’s knihomol which also means book moth