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Couple Tried to Name Baby “@”
By onelargeprawn in Everything Else on Aug 21, 2007 at 3:50 am
Word from China is that a couple tried to name their baby “@”.
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 “@” 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.
Link – via Across-the-Board
Rachel
