It’s annoying. That is all.
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Stop using the @ in comments.
April 3, 2007 — Steve Evans62 Responses to “Stop using the @ in comments.”
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April 3, 2007 at 5:25 pm
Th@’s a great idea.
April 3, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Sm@ckdown!
April 3, 2007 at 5:27 pm
@rseholes.
April 3, 2007 at 5:29 pm
that’s the second time that swear word has been used today on this blog. Didn’t Elder Holland s@y something about this….
April 3, 2007 at 5:32 pm
haha, it didn’t work! You have to have something in front of the @ sign to work, for ex@mple…
April 3, 2007 at 5:47 pm
@Steve Evans:
C’mon man, it’s 2007.
April 3, 2007 at 5:49 pm
_@men brother Evans
April 3, 2007 at 5:50 pm
John Williams, that won’t keep me from banning you.
April 3, 2007 at 5:50 pm
(yes, I would)
April 3, 2007 at 6:01 pm
All of this controversy about the ampersand reminds me of a little known fact about it’s brother, the *. That punctuation mark is properly referred to as the nathan, in honor of our revolutionary forebear Nathan Hale, who famously said, “My only regret is that I have but one asterisk for my country.”
April 3, 2007 at 6:02 pm
H@ve you noticed that c@lling @ttention to @ problem only m@kes it worse?
April 3, 2007 at 6:05 pm
“it’s brother”? what kind of lawyer are you, slackerman?
April 3, 2007 at 6:08 pm
Actually, this controversy is over the at-sign, not the ampersand. The ampersand looks like this: &.
April 3, 2007 at 6:10 pm
I actually don’t know very much about punctuation. Sorry.
April 3, 2007 at 6:11 pm
It’s apparently not required in order to win awards at Mormon blog commenting.
April 3, 2007 at 6:25 pm
Can someone please explain the asterisk quotation to me? Is that supposed to be like air-quotes or something? I would worry more about that than the at-sign.
April 3, 2007 at 6:33 pm
Ampersands, nathans, at signs, what’s the diff?
April 3, 2007 at 6:38 pm
Sorry, John, explaining the joke would suck what little funny there is right out of it.
April 3, 2007 at 6:40 pm
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April 3, 2007 at 6:41 pm
I don’t make the rules here.
April 3, 2007 at 6:44 pm
The nathans around words in blogs and comments is just a way of emphasizing them. Like making them *bold.*
April 3, 2007 at 6:47 pm
Susan, nice usage.
April 3, 2007 at 6:49 pm
I learned a new word today. “Nathan.” It’s kinda cute.
April 3, 2007 at 6:51 pm
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April 3, 2007 at 6:53 pm
By the way, my deleted comments *do not* contain any form of vulgarity.
April 3, 2007 at 6:54 pm
(besides the prohibited use of the at-sign)
April 3, 2007 at 6:54 pm
Did I mention that I’m an admin here, John Williams?
April 3, 2007 at 6:56 pm
I noticed.
April 3, 2007 at 7:05 pm
My 22 and 23 year old sons (who have been correcting my grammar and pronunciation since they were 2 and 3) tell me that @ (sorry Steve) is an *ampersat*.
April 3, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Two new words in one day. I should read this blog more often.
April 3, 2007 at 7:15 pm
I have noticed the little @ signs being used lately around the blogs, and I don’t know what they’re supposed to mean. Why would you start a comment with “at”?
April 3, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Dan (4) $o $orry.
April 3, 2007 at 7:36 pm
Dear Mr. Wondering:
RE: Comment #32
Outside of the “Bloggernacle,” it’s common practice to use the ampersat (@) symbol when addressing posters. Try reading a social news website entitled “Digg.com.”
Regards,
John Williams
April 3, 2007 at 7:40 pm
Dear Mr. Wondering:
RE: Comment #33
Correction: I was referring to Comment #31.
All the best,
John Williams
April 3, 2007 at 8:12 pm
Do you all know you have the same story about John Carmack on the sideblog twice?
BYW, do you know what sound a machine gun makes? R@t@t@t@t@t@t@t@t@t@t@t@t@t
April 3, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Matt W., it’s THAT good!
April 3, 2007 at 9:56 pm
Machine guns go: R@t@t@t@t@t!
Drums go: R@t-@-t@t@t!
Charlie Brown goes: R@ts!!!
Lawyers go: Squeak!
April 3, 2007 at 9:59 pm
Well, and did you know that in Danish, @ is called Snabel a? Snabel is the word for elephant’s trunk in Danish. (I had a very horrible time trying to get someone’s email address in Denmark over the phone a couple of years ago. He didn’t understand me when I said “at” and I really didn’t understand “snabel a”, and we were both struggling with the other person’s pronunciations of the vowels in our addresses.
April 3, 2007 at 10:01 pm
In HS print shop, we had quizzes on what to call different symbols, and this was the ‘commercial at,’ or commat. (Odd that I remember that from HS…)
Here’s a Natural History of the @ Sign for its name in various languages.
April 3, 2007 at 10:03 pm
Norbert, that’s extremely cool. For years in France I thought it was the “arabesque.”
April 3, 2007 at 11:13 pm
What’s your favorite scene from The Empire Strikes Back?
Me, I kinda like it when the @-@s attack . . .
April 4, 2007 at 1:00 am
G00fus is g@@fy.
April 4, 2007 at 8:47 am
Wh@tever.
April 4, 2007 at 9:32 am
I’m guessing Steve doesn’t read Digg.
April 4, 2007 at 9:41 am
@@@@@:-) Marge Simpson smiley
April 4, 2007 at 10:05 am
Kim, I’m guessing you don’t have a clue as to whether I read Digg, reddit, slashdot, or anything else. Most users on Digg don’t use that annoying @ symbol, and NOBODY in the bloggernacle uses it.
April 4, 2007 at 10:14 am
===>Kim
HRYK
April 4, 2007 at 10:20 am
pwn3d!
April 4, 2007 at 10:28 am
Y0u’r3 50 |337!
April 4, 2007 at 11:52 am
Steve,
I work in a technical field (architecture) and years ago a co-worker criticized a letter I had written because it contained the term “as per” in it. She said she was taught in a business writing class that we should write the way we speak I explained that afer several years of technical writing and specification writing “as per” was a part of my normal speaking vocabulary. Maybe “@” has just become part of our normal writing vocabulary.
April 4, 2007 at 11:55 am
Ok, so I’ve been writing for several years but not necessarily proof reading. It should have said “…write the way we speak. I explained that after several…” Sorry!
April 4, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Lamonte, I’m willing to entertain the idea that usage is ultimately the determining factor. But usage as of yet does not provide that @ has become part of our normal writing vocabulary, and I won’t stand for it.
April 4, 2007 at 12:58 pm
If someone around me was using “as per” in their normal speaking vocabulary, I might have to write a post entitled “Stop using ‘as per’ when speaking to me”
April 4, 2007 at 3:30 pm
It’s Steve’s blog. He can cry if he wants to.
April 4, 2007 at 9:03 pm
I’m fairly fearless, but I’m starting to become frightened.
April 5, 2007 at 6:41 am
#53 Jacob J – Are you saying that as per your true beliefs or are just making a joke @ my expense?
April 5, 2007 at 9:23 pm
Steve: Nobody? Just checking around, it seems like it’s going on quite a bit. Have you checked over at T&@?
April 5, 2007 at 9:34 pm
Maybe . . . but lots of folks elsewhere do.
April 5, 2007 at 9:39 pm
NOBODY!!
April 5, 2007 at 9:44 pm
Beautiful pwn3d Steve! Now all we need is a lag = ban and we’d be set…
April 5, 2007 at 9:50 pm
much props J in A.
April 5, 2007 at 10:17 pm
Indeed Steve, your ban has begun to have some effect throughout the internets.