He or She?
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A colleague of mine just wrote me something like "greate man ....." and I had to reply "it's great woman ......." :-D In this days of globalization, when you just know the name of your colleague, working on the other side of the world, how do you figure, whether the person is male or female? just curious, because with experience you become familiar with the names in the different cultures, but initially it might be tough. Ankita work to live better, don't live to work better!
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A colleague of mine just wrote me something like "greate man ....." and I had to reply "it's great woman ......." :-D In this days of globalization, when you just know the name of your colleague, working on the other side of the world, how do you figure, whether the person is male or female? just curious, because with experience you become familiar with the names in the different cultures, but initially it might be tough. Ankita work to live better, don't live to work better!
I tend to use neutrals (such as "person") or turn it into a plural if it makes sense ("they/them/their" instead of "he/him/his", "she/her/hers"). Compared to other languages, English lends itself to this kind of thing without much difficulty. Nonetheless, the most important thing still is not to take any of these innocent mistakes as something personal.
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A colleague of mine just wrote me something like "greate man ....." and I had to reply "it's great woman ......." :-D In this days of globalization, when you just know the name of your colleague, working on the other side of the world, how do you figure, whether the person is male or female? just curious, because with experience you become familiar with the names in the different cultures, but initially it might be tough. Ankita work to live better, don't live to work better!
You feudianly find the soluition: use "it" and forgot the gender... And if it will say "I'm a man / woman" just say "sorry, I once had a dog with that name" :laugh::laugh: 2 bugs found. > recompile ... 65534 bugs found. :doh:
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A colleague of mine just wrote me something like "greate man ....." and I had to reply "it's great woman ......." :-D In this days of globalization, when you just know the name of your colleague, working on the other side of the world, how do you figure, whether the person is male or female? just curious, because with experience you become familiar with the names in the different cultures, but initially it might be tough. Ankita work to live better, don't live to work better!
"man" in an Americanised context generally doesn't refer to gender I.e. "Wow man, that's really cool" doesn't imply it's directed at somebody male. Lots of people use "guys" in a non-gender specific way, too. e.g. "Hey guys!" as a greeting to a group of people, who may or may not all be male :) -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!
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A colleague of mine just wrote me something like "greate man ....." and I had to reply "it's great woman ......." :-D In this days of globalization, when you just know the name of your colleague, working on the other side of the world, how do you figure, whether the person is male or female? just curious, because with experience you become familiar with the names in the different cultures, but initially it might be tough. Ankita work to live better, don't live to work better!
Easy to learn, but a lot of problems at runtime. :) German, Portuguese, Spanish, etc speakers don't have this problem I don't see dead pixels anymore... Yes, even I am blogging now!
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A colleague of mine just wrote me something like "greate man ....." and I had to reply "it's great woman ......." :-D In this days of globalization, when you just know the name of your colleague, working on the other side of the world, how do you figure, whether the person is male or female? just curious, because with experience you become familiar with the names in the different cultures, but initially it might be tough. Ankita work to live better, don't live to work better!
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A colleague of mine just wrote me something like "greate man ....." and I had to reply "it's great woman ......." :-D In this days of globalization, when you just know the name of your colleague, working on the other side of the world, how do you figure, whether the person is male or female? just curious, because with experience you become familiar with the names in the different cultures, but initially it might be tough. Ankita work to live better, don't live to work better!
i get really confused with chinese names.
-Prakash
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A colleague of mine just wrote me something like "greate man ....." and I had to reply "it's great woman ......." :-D In this days of globalization, when you just know the name of your colleague, working on the other side of the world, how do you figure, whether the person is male or female? just curious, because with experience you become familiar with the names in the different cultures, but initially it might be tough. Ankita work to live better, don't live to work better!
ankita patel wrote:
how do you figure, whether the person is male or female?
If I am unsure, and if it's relevant, I ask. :)
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From what I cam remember 'man' ment person in ye very olde english and through the years has come to represent male and 'woman' is a derivative of 'man' (or something like this....)
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You are partially correct. It is not derived but composed with. The word "woman" comes from the old English "wifman" (wife + man).
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A colleague of mine just wrote me something like "greate man ....." and I had to reply "it's great woman ......." :-D In this days of globalization, when you just know the name of your colleague, working on the other side of the world, how do you figure, whether the person is male or female? just curious, because with experience you become familiar with the names in the different cultures, but initially it might be tough. Ankita work to live better, don't live to work better!
A friend of mine is named "Vivek" he often write his name (generally in mail sigs) as "viv" and a lot of times he is confused as a female, ppl generally think vivian when they see "viv" . so once a US guy met him for the first time he was like :wtf: i thought u were a women X| hehe
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg
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A colleague of mine just wrote me something like "greate man ....." and I had to reply "it's great woman ......." :-D In this days of globalization, when you just know the name of your colleague, working on the other side of the world, how do you figure, whether the person is male or female? just curious, because with experience you become familiar with the names in the different cultures, but initially it might be tough. Ankita work to live better, don't live to work better!
I always guess if there is a vowel at the end of a name it's a female name, but I know that's often wrong. I'm hopeless with asian names completely, no idea at all. I just assume they could be male or female or anywhere between and avoid gender pronouns. I don't think there is enough time in the world for anyone to get a feeling for this and in many cultures a name can be male or female with very little difference which is just more confusion. The best way to tell if a person is male or female is by how they write their text and construct their sentences. If they say "yeah" vs "yes"...that kind of thing. I've always thought it would be an interesting project to write software to guess that kind of thing, I think there are definite patterns that give it away, just a gut feeling though.
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I always guess if there is a vowel at the end of a name it's a female name, but I know that's often wrong. I'm hopeless with asian names completely, no idea at all. I just assume they could be male or female or anywhere between and avoid gender pronouns. I don't think there is enough time in the world for anyone to get a feeling for this and in many cultures a name can be male or female with very little difference which is just more confusion. The best way to tell if a person is male or female is by how they write their text and construct their sentences. If they say "yeah" vs "yes"...that kind of thing. I've always thought it would be an interesting project to write software to guess that kind of thing, I think there are definite patterns that give it away, just a gut feeling though.
could that be the use of "yeah" instead of "yes" sometimes? :doh: :-D
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could that be the use of "yeah" instead of "yes" sometimes? :doh: :-D
I've noticed in general that women tend to use "yes" or "no" where men tend to use some kind of slang or just "yeah" or "ok" etc. But it's not a solid rule, just one of many clues. I tend to think of it as irrelvant for the most part. I've been posting messages online since way before the internet was mainstream on relay mail bulletin boards in the '80s so I'm probably not a typical person for this kind of thing.
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I've noticed in general that women tend to use "yes" or "no" where men tend to use some kind of slang or just "yeah" or "ok" etc. But it's not a solid rule, just one of many clues. I tend to think of it as irrelvant for the most part. I've been posting messages online since way before the internet was mainstream on relay mail bulletin boards in the '80s so I'm probably not a typical person for this kind of thing.
yeah in general your are right! I just use "yeah" and "nope" sometimes, as "yes" and "no" sounds plain dull. :) Ankita
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I always guess if there is a vowel at the end of a name it's a female name, but I know that's often wrong. I'm hopeless with asian names completely, no idea at all. I just assume they could be male or female or anywhere between and avoid gender pronouns. I don't think there is enough time in the world for anyone to get a feeling for this and in many cultures a name can be male or female with very little difference which is just more confusion. The best way to tell if a person is male or female is by how they write their text and construct their sentences. If they say "yeah" vs "yes"...that kind of thing. I've always thought it would be an interesting project to write software to guess that kind of thing, I think there are definite patterns that give it away, just a gut feeling though.
John Cardinal wrote:
I always guess if there is a vowel at the end of a name it's a female name, but I know that's often wrong.
Your guess would be mostly correct, as far as Indian names go. There are very few male names that end with a vowel, and very few female names that don't. Cheers, Vikram.
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