On Jul 21, 2010, at 04:47 , WANG, Xiaoyun wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Brewster Gillett <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> How do you know it's "Mister"? >> >> This could help: >> >> <http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/gender-guesser.html> >> >> > > The link is interesting, though you need to enter the Chinese name to > guess the gender. I'd say it's normally right to guess my name as a > female name. A lot of people in my own country have made the mistake > before they saw me.;)
Glad you said that, XiaoYun. My experience was that the link treats all pinyin names as male! Including the name of my very female friend Xiao Dong, and a (female) story character Li Ya. In fact it only takes four characters. //James --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
