On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 01:48:17PM +0200, Andrej Shadura wrote: > No need to go that far.
> Andrea in Germany is traditionally a woman’s name, Andrea in Italy is a > masculine name. How can we tell if a certain specific Andrea is named > according to the German (Czech, Slovak etc) tradition (and hence likely a > woman) or the Italian (and hence probably a man)? There’s no way to > generally tell this based on the name alone. > > Take Misha/Miša/Миша or Petya/Peťa/Петя. In Russian tradition, these are > very likely masculine names, from Mikhail and Petr. If only this piece of software had a distinction between "almost always male", "leaning male", "neutral", "leaning female", "almost always female"... Oh wait, it does! Precisely for the reason you mention. > And we haven’t yet touched the topic of people who were given non-traditional > names. In which case it says "unknown". Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ We domesticated dogs 36000 years ago; together we chased ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ animals, hung out and licked or scratched our private parts. ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ Cats domesticated us 9500 years ago, and immediately we got ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ agriculture, towns then cities. -- whitroth on /.
