OT: first names and given names...

["Rainer Straschill" <rs@moinlabs.de>]

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