Can't Name Your Kid @ In China
from the probably-a-good-thing dept
China has decided that a man cannot name his kid "@" because it can't be translated into Mandarin. The man argued that since it's on every keyboard, an exception should be made. However, hopefully the kid will be thankful he doesn't need to go through life with such a... um... name? Either way, I would assume that, at some point, someone has figured out how to translate @ into Mandarin, because there are an awful lot of Mandarin-speaking people with email addresses.
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