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Re: Vocab #5

From:Aidan Grey <grey@...>
Date:Saturday, April 27, 2002, 16:16
At 10:42 AM 4/27/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Christian Thalmann scripsit: > > > I've never seen the name Christian (without trailing -e or -a) being > > used in a female sense, though I keep hearing that it exists in the > > US. Weird. > >The default female interpretation is so strong that it is probably only >people who know some foreigners (itself not a particularly common >trait) who are aware that it could be otherwise. > >Oh yes, and there's Hans Christian Andersen, or is it -son?
I totally disagree. I don't know _anyone_ who automatically assumes Christian to be a female. It's certainly NOT the default. I hope you just had a typo, otherwise I'm confused about which country I live in. Aidan