Re: ratio of male vs. female debian users
On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 06:42, Morten Bo Johansen wrote:
> Ivo Wever <I.J.W.Wever@student.tudelft.nl> wrote:
>
> IW> In retrospect, considering it ends in -a, it isn't to suprising it's a
> IW> female name. ;)
>
> There are a great many exceptions to that rule - in countries
> like Ireland and Finland many male names end in -a.
The "-o is masculine" and "-a is feminine" is purely(?) a rule for the
latinate languages: Italian, Spanish, Portugese and, of course, Latin.
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