Chinese couple try to name their baby '@'

[zane929]

I feel so bad for that baby..

Chinese parents come up with the most RIDICULOUS names. I once met a kid named Barney who preferred to go by 'Bo', and there was a guy named Jupiter who lived in my dorm last year, he had the same last name as me and the slutbags that worked in our mail room would always give me his letters and packages by mistake.

Chinese couple tried to name baby "@" - Yahoo! News

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese couple tried to name their baby "@", claiming the character used in e-mail addresses echoed their love for the child, an official trying to whip the national language into line said on Thursday.
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The unusual name stands out especially in Chinese, which has no alphabet and instead uses tens of thousands of multi-stroke characters to represent words.

"The whole world uses it to write e-mail, and translated into Chinese it means 'love him'," the father explained, according to the deputy chief of the State Language Commission Li Yuming.

While the "@" simple is familiar to Chinese e-mail users, they often use the English word "at" to sound it out -- which with a drawn out "T" sounds something like "ai ta", or "love him", to Mandarin speakers.

Li told a news conference on the state of the language that the name was an extreme example of people's increasingly adventurous approach to Chinese, as commercialisation and the Internet break down conventions.

Another couple tried to give their child a name that rendered into English sounds like "King Osrina."

Li did not say if officials accepted the "@" name. But earlier this year the government announced a ban on names using Arabic numerals, foreign languages and symbols that do not belong to Chinese minority languages.

Sixty million Chinese faced the problem that their names use ancient characters so obscure that computers cannot recognise them and even fluent speakers were left scratching their heads, said Li, according to a transcript of the briefing on the government Web site (ä¸*Ã¥Â�Žäººæ°â??Ã¥â?¦Â±Ã¥â??Å?Ã¥â?ºÂ½Ã¤Â¸* 央人æ°â??æâ?�¿åºÅ?éâ??¨æË?·ç½â ??ç«â?¢).

One of them was the former Premier Zhu Rongji, whose name had a rare "rong" character that gave newspaper editors headaches.

zane929 Reviewed by zane929 on 08-16-2007. Chinese couple try to name their baby '@' I feel so bad for that baby.. Chinese parents come up with the most RIDICULOUS names. I once met a kid named Barney who preferred to go by 'Bo', and there was a guy named Jupiter who lived in my dorm last year, he had the same last name as me and the slutbags that worked in our mail room would always give me his letters and packages by mistake. Chinese couple tried to name baby "@" - Yahoo! News BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese couple tried to name their baby "@", claiming the Rating: 5

[cannabis campbell]

Whaaaaaaat! thats crazy chinese people are always doing crazy stuff, I cant believe someone would actually name their kid that and its weird that "@ (pronounced at)" is love him in chinese... :wtf:! Jesus this time in 10 years they wont be naming their kids with names they will be like naming them with smells or something.

[ghosty]

hahaha imagine is his email. @@yahoo.com

[zane929]

hahaha imagine is his email. @@yahoo.com

roflmao

[ganjzilla]

haha that shit is crazy, id slap those people...u need to think of ur children when u name them, u may like it but people are cruel and after years of being nitpicked at over their name they arent gona like it too awful much

[420budtoker420]

i know ome people they named their kids, yoda, Pharrow, wind, storm, and ocean

[Stealth331]

People are strange and this just confirms it.

I heard of a kid being named Fiona today.
Can you imagine the shit she is going to go through in school?

[L Rag]

Haha thats wack.. Apparently there's twins in Australia called Fish and Chips.. Gutted..

[not_the_kitty]

@ wouldnt be as bad as some names of ghetto kids in my shool that have names that don't even make phonetic sense....and not to even mention when they put in the random accent marks over the e in their name as if it makes a difference to your ghetto ass.

[Reefer Rogue]

I liked the name, i think it should stand. Fight the downpressors, no more babylon interrogation.