Wizbang has a link to an article about name selection for babies in China...
The Ministry of Public Security has drawn up a new regulation on registration of names. In future, babies' names must be drawn from a list that excludes tens of thousands of rare Chinese characters. With the introduction of electronic identity cards, the authorities will only register names that can be stored in their police database.
Gotta love the commies don't ya?
Actually, its not such a bad idea. Perhaps the US could do the same sort of thing and eliminate the propensity of people not know how to spell the name?! Example, you say?
Take a simple name like, Sean. Or is it, Shawn? Or...Shaun...Sion...Shawon...??
Everyone could be named Johnson! That'd save everyone time
I thought every male in China was called Johnson already?
Posted by: Stevo in Taichung | March 20, 2006 at 05:30 PM