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

[Mark Sottilaro <sine@zerocrossing.net>]

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
>
>