Acursive variation ofᾱ orᾱᾱ, the abbreviation ofGreekἀνά(aná) used in recipes and prescriptions with the meaning "of each", and later extended to accounting. (Other explanations have that it isā, an abbreviation of Latinad(“to”), or Frenchà(“to”).)
@ (third-person singular simple present@s,present participle@ing,simple past and past participle@ed)
(Internetslang,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.
(informal)a replacement foro ore anda, to include both masculine and feminine forms
l@s alumn@s = {los alumnos, las alumnas}
the students
est@ usuari@ = {este usuario, esta usuaria}
this user
2000, Onofre Ricardo Contreras Jordán,La formación inicial y permanente del profesor de educación física, Univ de Castilla La Mancha,→ISBN, page131:
Deberá el/la tutor/a orientar, reconducir y resolver las mil y una dudas que se plantean l@s alumn@s en el prácticum ya sea I, II o III, en sus diferentes actuaciones docentes, en cuanto a evaluación, niveles de dificultad parámetros que evaluar y un largo etc[…]
The tutor must guide, redirect and resolve the thousand and one doubts that students have in the practicum, whether I, II or III, in their different teaching activities, in terms of evaluation, levels of difficulty, parameters to be evaluated and a broad[…]
The symbol is calledsnabel-a(“elephant's trunk A”) in Swedish because of its shape. Less formally it is also known askanelbulle(“cinnamon roll”) oralfakrull(“alpha curl”)