Re: CHAT: R: Re: OT CHAT: Asperger's syndrome

Irina wrote:

> On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Mangiat wrote:
>
> > Nik wrote:
>
> > > Boy?  Oops, I'd been assuming Luca was a feminine name.  I'm
embarrassed
> > > now.  :-/
> >
> > No problem... it's the lone Italian proper name with that ending to be
> > masculine, I'm qite abitued to such errors by foreigners!
>
> Aren't people called "Andrea" any more? When I was studying
> musicology, I was amused no end by a fellow student who wrote a paper
> trying to prove that Andrea Gabrieli was a woman :-)
O, yes, there's even Andrea. Both of them are of Greek origin (Loukas and
Andreias, AFAIR).

Luca.