This article appeared in this week’s TechCentral.ie newsletter.

It’s about a Chinese couple who want to name their new baby boy ‘@’. I thought it was pretty cool and wondered why no one has tried to do this already and as the article says:

To a Mandarin speaker, saying the word ‘at’ in English sounds like ‘ai ta’ which means ‘love him’.

So at least it has some meaning but they also came up with the downside:

baby @ will find creating an email account a problem as most providers prohibit the use of special symbols as part of the user name

The full article can be found here.