Father wanted to name son '@'

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A father in central China has been refused permission to name his son '@'.

The dad wanted to name his son after keyboard character that appears in every email address, arguing it was now in common usage.

But officials in Zhengzhou, Henan province, refused to register the name on a legal technicality, the Beijing Morning Post reported.

Under Chinese law, all names must be capable of being translated into Mandarin.

Source: Ananova

Posted by Haitham Sabbah on Wednesday, October 13, 2004, at 12:54 pm. Filed under Bleeding Edge, Internet 'n Computers, News You Can Do Without, Too Much Free Time. Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. You can post a comment or trackback from your blog.

Eman | October 13, 2004 at 2:50 pm | Permalink

Imagine the misery this poor kid would go through if he was named '@' !!
I think all parents should think over and over before naming their babies. A name has a very big influence on the life of its holder.
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Roba | October 13, 2004 at 6:56 pm | Permalink

Yeah! That's too silly really, but I think it's even sillier that the government doesn't allow the people to call their kids whatever they want.
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nicole | October 15, 2004 at 2:03 pm | Permalink

..imagine the e-mail-address of someone called "@": at@lastname.com.
Before all this virutal stuff we thought about giving our children names fitting to our surnames. Do we nowadays have to think about giving them names fitting to our domains?
sometimes I think if some people had more sense of responsibility much things in our world would be easier to handle..
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