A Chinese couple who wanted a distinctive name for their baby boy and…: linguaphiles

: Rydw i'n hoffi coffi (mactavish) wrote in linguaphiles,
2007-08-16 09:24:00

Rydw i'n hoffi coffi
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linguaphiles
2007-08-16 09:24:00

A Chinese couple who wanted a distinctive name for their baby boy and came up with the symbol @ have earned a rebuke from the government's language watchdog.

"At" becomes "atta" which sounds like "love him."

Interesting background on how obscure some Chinese names are becoming - "Sixty million Chinese have names which use ancient Chinese characters so obscure that computers cannot recognise them and even fluent speakers were left nonplussed, Mr Li added."

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