Monday, December 17, 2007

Internet question

If your parents had named you @ to make sure you had a distinctive name, and because the letters A and T can be pronounced in a way that sounds like the phrase “Love him” in Mandarin, would that disadvantage you in later life? For example if your email address was based on your name eg @@somewhere.com, would most mail servers reject the double @ and hence not deliver your mail. Of course before this young Chinese child worries about that, the local police, who are the name gatekeepers, will first need to agree on this unorthodox, bizarre, name.

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