Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 04:12:10 +0900 From: "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" <knu@idaemons.org> To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: shin@nd.net.fujitsu.co.jp, imp@village.org, dcs@newsguy.com, green@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/handbook/contrib chapter.sgml Message-ID: <86putbc1h1.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> In-Reply-To: In your message of "Fri, 03 Mar 2000 16:26:35 %2B0900" <20000303162635G.shin@nd.net.fujitsu.co.jp> References: <38BE7B3D.AF373040@newsguy.com> <200002280315.TAA81734@freefall.freebsd.org> <200003021809.LAA16928@harmony.village.org> <20000303162635G.shin@nd.net.fujitsu.co.jp>
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Hi.
(I moved the place to freebsd-chat)
At Fri, 03 Mar 2000 16:26:35 +0900,
Inoue-san <shin@nd.net.fujitsu.co.jp> wrote:
> > Warner
> >
> > [*] I picked "hisashi" from my email archive of names. I hope that
> > I've not given yamamoto-san a female name. I don't know enough about
> > Japanese names to know one way or the other.
>
> I think hisashi will be a name for a male, in very high
> probability. :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Yoshinobu Inoue
Yeah, undoubtedly.
Although it's difficult to guess male or female by a Japanese name
written in alphabets, I'd show some simple rules... (Sort of the first
match wins principle applies)
Japanese names:
- of more than four syllables (or kana rather) are definitely male.
(>99%)
e.g. Jun'ichiro, Yoshinobu, Akinori
- that end with "ko" are definitely female. (>99%)
e.g. ONO Yoko, Masako (Japanese crown princess)
- that end with /[aeiou]o/ are probably male. (>95%)
e.g. Takao, Akio
- that end with "shi" are definitely male. (>99%)
e.g. Takeshi, Hiroshi
- that end with /[aiou]e/ are definitely female. (>99%)
e.g. MORI Hanae, Yukie
- that end with "na" are definitely female. (>99%)
e.g. Kana, Nana
- that end with "mi" are probably female, but possibly male. (>80%)
e.g. Emi, Mayumi
- that contain /[dgjz]/ are likely male. (>80%?)
e.g. OBUCHI Keizo, Koji, Hideki
- of *BSD users are mysteriously, definitely male. (>99%)
e.g. ;-)
More rules can be found, but note that every rule has its exceptions.
To be honest, I wish the last one will have lots of exceptions! :-)
(Are there any now?)
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