Re: Bug#1014908: ITP: gender-guesser -- Guess the gender from first name
Hi,
On Fri, 15 Jul 2022, at 21:10, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> Consider -
>
> Debconf is on in Kosovo right now. If I had to work out Albanian
> gender mappings from names, I'd have no clue.
>
> Then S. Indian - Malayalam character sets?? and names from a number of
> Indian languages then Israel and Hebrew/Arabic
> Taiwan had Chinese character sets and names
No need to go that far.
Andrea in Germany is traditionally a woman’s name, Andrea in Italy is a masculine name. How can we tell if a certain specific Andrea is named according to the German (Czech, Slovak etc) tradition (and hence likely a woman) or the Italian (and hence probably a man)? There’s no way to generally tell this based on the name alone.
Take Misha/Miša/Миша or Petya/Peťa/Петя. In Russian tradition, these are very likely masculine names, from Mikhail and Petr. In Czech and Slovak, they’re likely feminine names (Michaela and Petra), but not e.g. if the person is an immigrant, which is impossible to tell based on the name alone.
Žeňa/Zhenya/Женя can be either (Eugene or Eugenia). Impossible to tell apart without further clues. (And there are so many "unisex" names!)
And we haven’t yet touched the topic of people who were given non-traditional names.
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Cheers,
Andrej
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