{"id":14208,"date":"2007-08-16T12:18:43","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T19:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/08\/16\/couple-tried-to-name-baby-reuters\/"},"modified":"2007-08-16T12:18:43","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T19:18:43","slug":"couple-tried-to-name-baby-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/08\/couple-tried-to-name-baby-reuters\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple Tried to Name Baby &#8220;@&#8221; &#8211; Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/www.reuters.com5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"www.reuters.com5.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/www.reuters.com5-thumb.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a> From Reuters:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA Chinese couple tried to name their baby &#8220;@,&#8221; claiming the character used in e-mail addresses echoed their love for the child, an official trying to whip the national language into line said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The unusual name stands out especially in Chinese, which has no alphabet and instead uses tens of thousands of multi-stroke characters to represent words. &#8220;The whole world uses it to write e-mail, and translated into Chinese it means &#8216;love him&#8217;,&#8221; the father explained, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blcu.edu.cn\/english\/xld.htm\">deputy chief of the State Language Commission <\/a>Li Yuming. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/internetNews\/idUSPEK36827920070816?feedType=RSS&#038;feedName=internetNews\">[Full Text]<br \/>\n<br \/><\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nAlso on the subject of Internet lingo, China in Transition blog reports that a list of supposed &#8220;new vocabulary&#8221; originating from the Internet is actually incomprehensible to most Chinese netizens:\n<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nMany Chinese web users found themselves nearly illiterate in front of a list of new vocabulary said to be mostly originated from the Web, which was released on Thursday by China&#8217;s Ministry of Education.<\/p>\n<p>The list, containing over 170 new Chinese words, is compiled by language experts at the ministry, as part of its report on the use of Chinese language in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;But a majority of the over 1000 netizens commenting on the new release, including some heavy web users, said they did not recognize most of these new words. Indeed, except for only a few terms, such as blog article, grassroots netizen, second-generation one-child family, and Gu Ge, the Chinese version for Google, the list is full of words that do not make much sense to even native Chinese speakers.<a href=\"http:\/\/josieliu.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/netizens-dont-get-new-web-vocabularies.html\" target=\"_blank\"> [Full text]<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n[Image: &#8216;@&#8217; from Reuters.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Reuters: A Chinese couple tried to name their baby &#8220;@,&#8221; claiming the character used in e-mail addresses echoed their love for the child, an official trying to whip the national language into line said Thursday. 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