On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 06:08:16PM +0200, Andrej Shadura wrote: > On Tue, 19 Jul 2022, at 16:57, Adam Borowski wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 01:48:17PM +0200, Andrej Shadura wrote: > >> 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. > > No, it does not and cannot, since some names are almost always male in one > culture but almost always female in another one.
In other words, if you don't pick a culture, the _global_ dataset (ie, the default one) must not assume either. It takes a lot of work to prepare such a database, that's why this package is good to have. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ At least spammers get it right: "Hello beautiful!". ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
