Re: Vocab #5
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 27, 2002, 14:42 |
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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?
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John Cowan <jcowan@...> http://www.reutershealth.com
I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith. --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_
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