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A Chinese couple wants to name their child after the commonly used Internet @ symbol.
Because there are so many common surnames in China, Li Yuming, the vice director of the State Language Commission, said yesterday people are driven to find more individual names for their children.
The police, who are the arbiters, will have the final say whether to reject @ as a name for the child because they issue identity cards.
The unidentified couple chose @, which translates into "love him" in Chinese, because "the whole world uses it to write e-mails."
Sounds like a good enough reason to me.
And, if they decide to have another child, they could call him .com
notice I couldn't put a period at the end of this sentence without changing the kid's name)
Click here for more on the story.
Because there are so many common surnames in China, Li Yuming, the vice director of the State Language Commission, said yesterday people are driven to find more individual names for their children.
The police, who are the arbiters, will have the final say whether to reject @ as a name for the child because they issue identity cards.
The unidentified couple chose @, which translates into "love him" in Chinese, because "the whole world uses it to write e-mails."
Sounds like a good enough reason to me.
And, if they decide to have another child, they could call him .com
notice I couldn't put a period at the end of this sentence without changing the kid's name)
Click here for more on the story.
Labels: children's names, China, Chinese, e-mails, State Language Commission
posted by Diana at 11:43 AM
4 Comments:
I've got Chinese twins in my neighborhood,Xao and Zandy.Their parents are Xao and River(mom).
So that being said, is @ such a bad name for a kid?
We have Dweezil and Moon Zappa,the progeny of Frank Zappa.
We have a Chasity Bono,we have the artist formerly known as Prince who used a androgynous symbol for his name.He has since reverted to
his "Prince" moniker.
What strikes me here is that the Police in China have the final say-so over the chosen name.
China,still a police state apparently.
Perhaps they can pick one from column "A" and one from column "B"?
HA-RO and sayonara.
@? How do pronounce that??
#&*!
Waaaaa... Put me back in!
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