| But all great things come from small origins. When | | | | been use originally for liquid measurement back in |
| we allow ourselves to dwell on 'what's easier' | | | | the day and though it wasn't considered the |
| compared to 'what's right', we tend to carry this | | | | standard or official measurement, it was of good |
| attitude to the end of our days or the time we | | | | use on the local Arabic regions. |
| learn and apply the entire language to say the | | | | The use of arroba has been long used as the |
| least. | | | | symbol @ and was developed later for email |
| For instance, the English symbol @ can be | | | | addresses. This is also done to simply avert from |
| translated in pure Spanish. Not so many people | | | | being copied by spam robots in email servers. |
| know this and probably other English words as | | | | The use of the word arroba in Spanish can be |
| well which we don't hear often used by native | | | | done simply just like how you should pronounce |
| Spanish speakers. But this symbol has a Spanish | | | | an email address. For example, is read out as juan |
| translation which means arroba and the irony here | | | | punto delacruz arroba car punto com. The usual |
| is that this word has been around long before the | | | | dot or period that we see in any email address |
| word e-mail came to life. | | | | around the world is read out as punto in Spanish. |
| Another interesting thing about arroba is that it's | | | | |