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Re: OT: first names and given names...



Right.  It's not the mistake.  The mistake is inevitable.  Part of 
being human.  It's all about how you recover and if you learn.

Mark

On Sunday, October 6, 2002, at 12:52  PM, Rainer Straschill wrote:

> Hey Mark,
>
> I guess the gender of the name is there if you figure out what is the 
> family
> name and what the given name...:-)
> I like these misunderstandings we face all the time in today's 
> "interracial"
> world...and there are lots of those, like the teachers at my former 
> grammar
> school (one of them a Latin teacher btw) who thought that "Luca" was a 
> girl
> because, all first names ending on "a" are females (as exemplified by 
> the
> famous composer Andrea Gabrieli). And it really gets interesting with
> outer-occidental cultures where first names aren't necessarily given
> names...
>
>       Rainer
>
> Rainer Straschill
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>
>> corrected me, but what-ever.  My ignorance of the implied
>> gender of her
>> name (is there one?) was a mistake based on ignorance, as
>> opposed to a
>> mistake based on stupidity and social retardation, like the one
>> described below.
>>
>> Mark Sottilaro
>
>