Date:         Sun, 25 Feb 2001 21:46:44 +1100
Reply-To:     "Karsten M. Self" <karsten@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Karsten M. Self" <karsten@IX.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:      Re: first name mapping to gender
In-Reply-To:  <sa87efaf.043@ndri.org>; from peter.flom@NDRI.ORG on Mon, Feb 12,
              2001 at 02:13:37PM -0500
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on Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 02:13:37PM -0500, Peter Flom (peter.flom@NDRI.ORG) wrote:
> There was an interesting article in the NY Times today.  Apparently,
> it's very popular in China to take names out of English dictionaries.
> One woman changed her name to Satan.  According to the article, it is
> also popular to change your name in China

I know a Chinese "October", met whilst mountaineering in Death Valley
(hmm...paradoxical even).  Now...is that male or female...

China (and even more so Mongolia) suffers from a surfeit of distinct
surnames.  Various solutions have been proposed.

I once exploited this fact when identifying userids on a China-based box
which was spamming some systems of mine -- turned up four non-system
userids in six guesses....

-- 
Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com>    http://kmself.home.netcom.com/
 What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand?       There is no K5 cabal
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