@の英語

語源 1

前置詞

@

1. At a rate of (so much each).

   15 items @ $10

   @ 80 km/h ― at eighty kilometres per hour

2. (informal) At (any sense).

   @ 20°C ― at twenty degrees Celsius

   Text message: “im @ school.”

   • 2024 October 10, Mehera Bonner, “The Levi's Shortalls Taylor Swift Can't Stop Wearing Are Still on Sale Post Prime Day”, in Cosmopolitan‎:

     "you need to calm down" — my credit card @ me.

動詞

@ (third-person singular simple present @s, present participle @ing, simple past and past participle @ed)

1. (Internet slang, transitive) To reply to or speak to someone, either online or face to face. (from the practice of targeting a message or reply to someone online by writing @name)

   Honestly, don't @ me if you don't have anything nice to say.

   He angrily @ed me after I made an innocent comment.

   • 2023, R. F. Kuang, Yellowface, The Borough Press, page 2:

     She regularly tweets career updates and quirky jokes to her seventy thousand followers, but she rarely @s other people.

使用する際の注意点

• Chiefly used in the phrase don't @ me. It can be used humorously when stated after an unpopular or ironic opinion, in order to forestall dissent.

名詞

@ (plural @s)

1. (Internet slang) The permanent handle of a user which follows @, chiefly on Twitter.

   What your @?

別の表記

• at

参考

• at sign
• @ party
• @mention

語源 2

The at-sign (@) resembles both the feminine ending/element a and the masculine o.

略号

@

1. Forming gender-neutral versions of Spanish-derived words by replacing both the masculine -o and feminine -a.

   Chican@, Filipin@, Latin@, Mestiz@

2. By extension, sometimes used to blend other pairs of words that differ by being spelled with o vs a.

   Kosov@; Pin@y

参考

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