X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,4535542c202ab06b X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-16 21:32:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: cerulli@dm.unipi.it (Michele Cerulli) Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: ASCII Ham Date: 16 May 2002 21:32:14 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <7OxD8.9684$xO.6192547@e3500-atl1.usenetserver.com> <3ce143b6$0$97285$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 142.51.48.140 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1021609934 9884 127.0.0.1 (17 May 2002 04:32:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 17 May 2002 04:32:14 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:17252 "CeeJay" wrote in message news:<3ce143b6$0$97285$edfadb0f@dspool01.news.tele.dk>... > What may be the wrong conclusion in one country can be the right in another. > F.x the name "Kim" around here is a masculine name , somewhere else it could > be a feminine name. > > Around here "Michele" would be a girls name , but if Phillip Newton is > correct .. and I'm sure he is .. then it's likely a guys name in this case. Yep, Phillip is correct I am Italian and I am a boy. > My name is Christian, an internationally well know name. > Many countries use this name and with many different pronounciations. > I pronounce it the danish way, but it really don't matter that much to me if > people pronounce it in english , german , french, spanish , swedish .. etc > What matters is that everybody have SOME form of pronounciation of it (so I > won't have to explain how it's pronounced) and they know it's a masculine > name. Well, we have also italian versions for your name: - Cristiano - Cristiana The first one is masculine, the second one is feminine, I guess that how in Italian it is enough to change the last letter (in general "o"=masculine and "a"=feminine) of any word, then we have both versions of most names. Actually the feminine for "Michele" is "Michela" Michele ;. .: }oOOO< MC >OOOo{ ' ` http://www-studenti.dm.unipi.it/~cerulli