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So what the hell is with the @ symbol.

As a society, are we that friggin' lazy that we need to come up with a symbol for a friggin' 2 letter word?

Is it such a burden on our daily lives to write/type out the letters "a" "t" that some group of influential geniuses decided to coin a single symbol that would greatly simplify our world?!

I think the complexity of drawing the letter "a", and then drawing a protective circular shield around the outside of it...might actually require more ink than a simple "a" and a "t" would...

Couldn't the @ symbol be short for something a little more cumbersome, such as :

Aardvark?
Antarctica?
Antidisestablishmentarianism?

....as you were