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Naming kids weird things, like @
Just because you like the internet, and have a strong desire towards email, there is no way on earth you should be able to name your child '@'.That's just what a couple in China is trying to get away with. It is their life after all, but think of poor '@' when he's 5 going to school, or 16 and trying to get a date. The couple claims that the '@' symbol professes their love for the little bundle of joy. You see, in China 'at' or sounded out 'ai ta' apparently means to 'love him'.
China does have a ban on using ancient characters in names. It's not known whether the couple was actually allowed to name their child '@', but if they are, maybe we'll soon see a few $, %, &, and !'s sprout up around the country.
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justin said 3:36PM on 8-16-2007
i want to change my name to !
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Garrison said 3:47PM on 8-16-2007
Maybe they were big fans of Rogue or NetHack.
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Saftey Dancer said 3:49PM on 8-16-2007
I want to change my name to
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ThingFish said 4:35PM on 8-16-2007
This is as stupid as that New Zealand couple trying to name their baby 4real, the gov't denied them because names can not contain numbers. Now they are trying to name the child Superman. Personally I think people like this shouldn't be allowed to put there DNA in the gene pool.
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mark said 7:04PM on 8-16-2007
That's gonna suck when @ tries to get an email address. Or fill out an online form for that matter. "You may not use special characters in your name."
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Chris Gilmer said 7:05PM on 8-16-2007
LOL @ mark. that is so true!
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Mark said 9:38PM on 8-16-2007
Don't these idiot parents realize that they are ruining their children's lives by giving them all these stupid names, just so THEY can get attention for themselves. These kids are human beings, not pets! Imagine what they have to go through in school when their name is Superman or some stupid symbol. This should really be considered abuse.
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Mysterius said 1:53AM on 8-17-2007
It's not so bad. I mean, it seems to be a workable name in Chinese, at least. If he ever needs to fill out his name in English, just use "At", or if he feels self conscious about that, then "Ahta" or something.
I might consider it myself someday, for my child, though I'm not insane enough to actually try to use the "@" symbol as the name.
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adam said 3:28AM on 8-17-2007
My real name is Hyphen Interrobang
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# said 5:49AM on 8-17-2007
I was known as # in my former life
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kimosabi said 4:23PM on 8-19-2007
why cant they just pick one of the 91235283462842387423425435million other chinese symbols?
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James said 11:04AM on 8-20-2007
Maybe I should change my name to "emdash" -- sort of a copy-editor in-joke?
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