14 Mar
2014
14 Mar
'14
9:35 a.m.
On 2014-03-14, at 14:01 , Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> wrote:
The reason @ is used for reply is because the menomic Is "at soandso". Probably if people can handle that they can handle it here too.
People don't "handle" anything, they learn the semantics of the @ symbol in-context, whatever name they give it. That does not mean non-english-speakers associate it with the sound "at" (they don't, in my experience), even ignoring the dodginess of using "at" as a mnemonic for "matrix", and @ as a shortcut for that (doubly so in Python where @ already means "decorator")