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Re: OT: first names and given names...
>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...
like in China where the first name is the family name, the
generations name second, and the third is the "given" name.
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