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Couple tries to name baby "@"

Couple tries to name baby "@"

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#1Couple tries to name baby "@"
Posted: 8/18/07 at 1:05am

Couple tried to name baby "@"
Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:42AM EDT

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 Thursday.

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.
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#2re: Couple tries to name baby '@'
Posted: 8/18/07 at 1:20am

ahole.com?


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#2re: Couple tries to name baby '@'
Posted: 8/18/07 at 1:32am

At first I was like "wtf?" but actually, what it means in their language...it's sweet. It would be different, I think, if they lived here or in a non-Chinese-speaking country.


I mean, Denzel Washington? Gun to my head..of course.

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#3re: Couple tries to name baby '@'
Posted: 8/18/07 at 1:59am

It's a great pity that China has a one child policy. Otherwise, they could raise a whole line of expletive deletives.

@##&$*@# etc.


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#4re: Couple tries to name baby '@'
Posted: 8/18/07 at 8:48am

I think I'll name my kid Ampersand.


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#5re: Couple tries to name baby '@'
Posted: 8/18/07 at 9:50am

I don't get parents like this.

It's a lame attempt at trying to make their kid special or unique. How about actually RAISING the kid to be original, instead of slapping a funny name or a fancy coat of paint on to do the job for you?

"@" indeed.


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#6re: Couple tries to name baby '@'
Posted: 8/18/07 at 12:53pm

If someone has twins they could be call ( and ) and Rich kids could be named $ What next?


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#7re: Couple tries to name baby '@'
Posted: 8/18/07 at 12:55pm

"Prince" started this whole damn thing!


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#8re: Couple tries to name baby '@'
Posted: 8/18/07 at 12:58pm

I considered naming my son "Umlaut," but everyone told me he'd be confused all his life with Uma Thurman.


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#9re: Couple tries to name baby '@'
Posted: 8/18/07 at 2:14pm

The kid would be called Arroba in spanish.


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#10re: Couple tries to name baby '@'
Posted: 8/18/07 at 2:17pm

Speaking of babies, DD, did you hear that Rasta and his wife are expecting?

Now THAT is going to be a gorgeous child. We can call him/her "!"


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#11re: Couple tries to name baby '@'
Posted: 8/18/07 at 2:19pm

No. Hadn't heard. It makes me happy, yet so sad.

There will be no words to describe that child...


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#12re: Couple tries to name baby '@'
Posted: 8/18/07 at 2:28pm

"There will be no words to describe that child..."

That's why he should use a punctuation mark!


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ThankstoPhantom
#13re: Couple tries to name baby '@'
Posted: 8/18/07 at 2:34pm

Best12, I hear ya'! My father's wife had a baby several years ago and gave her a 'different' name so she could be 'special'. Then she got upset and almost changed her mind when other women were naming their babies the same thing. Ridiculous.


How to properly use its/it's: Its is the possessive. It's is the contraction for it is...

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miss pennywise
#14re: Couple tries to name baby '@'
Posted: 8/18/07 at 2:44pm

Remember when the son of Barbara Hershey and David Carradine changed his name from "Free" to "Tom"?


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#15re: Couple tries to name baby '@'
Posted: 8/18/07 at 5:07pm

@ssholes.

I considered naming my son "Umlaut," but everyone told me he'd be confused all his life with Uma Thurman.

Hahaha.


I admit, I have kind of a crazy name, but it has a lot of different meanings to my parents, and I love it.


One time, Patti LuPone punched me in the face...


It was awesome.
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#16re: Couple tries to name baby '@'
Posted: 8/18/07 at 5:29pm

I'm naming my first kid !!!!.


Because I'd be shocked that I had one.


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