Let's mark this thread properly so at least it's easy to filter out...
Said this, my two drops of gasoline on the fire:
Jussi =~ Giusi, same pronounce here in Italy, where is short for
Giuseppina (feminine only), but, OTOH
Andrea = masculine only in Italy, feminine in Germany (I and the guys
had a real shock when one of us, heterosexual to the bone,
came back from Germany announcing his engagement with Andrea..)
Add to this the fact that online nothing prevents a hairy construction
crew worker to sign himself as "Sweet Linda", or a 36DDD chick as
"Hercules the moustached biker", if that's how they feel inside, and we
would all be much better off by just being careful...
OK, now that I've done my weekly ratio of kicking political correctness,
back to work, and of course don't take me too seriously
Ciao,
Marco Fioretti
(heck, Marco (masculine) =~ Margot (feminine).... all right, I'll stop..)
> 24-Mar-02 at 22:37, Rob 'Feztaa' Park ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote :
> > Your name just sounds so feminine. We seem to get a lot of that here,
> > don't we? ;)
>
> I don't know that I can let you get away with that. Said in the correct accent
> - in fact, one of German, Switzerdutch, and most Scandinavian accents, Jussi
> sounds reasonably masculine to me.
>
> In and English accent (particularly Canadian/American) it /may/ sound
> feminine... but you should never assume that just because in your phonetics, a
> name sounds feminine, that it is. Indeed, never assume at all that you can
> guess, because some names which are only female in English may be unisex in
> other countries, or unisex with slight spelling variations.
>
> Shit I hate political correctness, but I adore linguistic debate. Sometimes
> the two collide and I have a little rant. Apologies to the sensitive.
>
> --
> [Simon White. vim/mutt/Linux. [EMAIL PROTECTED] GIMPS: 54.35%] v-- John Lennon
> Sometimes we sit and read other people's interpretations of our lyrics
> and think, 'Hey, that's pretty good.' If we liked it, we would keep our
> mouths shut and just accept the credit as if it was what we meant all along.
>
