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From: blmblm@myrealbox.com <blmblm.myrealbox@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Why "lock" functionality is introduced for all the objects?
Date: 6 Jul 2011 17:07:45 GMT
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In article <iv1biu$r22$2@speranza.aioe.org>,
KitKat  <kitkat_11697@gmail.example.com> wrote:
> On 05/07/2011 5:10 PM, blmblm@myrealbox.com wrote:
> > In article<iuvoo8$fbj$1@speranza.aioe.org>,
> > KitKat<kitkat_11697@gmail.example.com>  wrote:
> On 05/07/2011 5:10 PM, blmblm@myrealbox.com wrote:
> > In article<iuvoo8$fbj$1@speranza.aioe.org>,
> > KitKat<kitkat_11697@gmail.example.com>  wrote:
> >> On 05/07/2011 3:15 PM, BGB wrote:
> >>> On 7/1/2011 3:08 PM, KitKat wrote:
> >>>> Regardless of which, "Onodera" also sounds feminine.
> >>>
> >>> grr... the name is not latin-based,
> >>
> >> What does Latin have to do with Java, BGB?
> >
> > About as much as the gender of names does -- and aren't you the one
> > who brought that up?
> 
> Actually, Tom Anderson was the one who prompted it by posting a 
> feminine-sounding name and following it up with male pronouns.

Perhaps correctly, and you could have resisted ....  <shrug>

> >>> not everything that ends in 'a' is female.
> >>
> >> No, just the names that do.
> >
> > I think for Japanese names this is not true.  Check Wikipedia under
> > "Akira Endo" for two examples.
> 
> ???

I don't know what you're asking here -- perhaps what I mean by "two
examples"?  If I go to the main Wikipedia page and do a search on
"Akira Endo" I get a page that lists two people named Akira Endo
(a biochemist and a conductor), and the articles about of them 
indicate that both are male.  What do you get?  Did you want URLs?

(I looked up that name because I vaguely remembered the conductor.
I didn't know about the biochemist, but perhaps it's not an uncommon
name in Japan.)

> >>> not like it is some guy with a name like "Chibichibi Hitomi" or
> >>> something, which would be a bit suspect.
> >>
> >> Yes, "i" instead of "y" endings are also usually feminine.
> >
> > In Japanese?
> 
> In general.

What makes you think this rule is universal, when the one about 
names ending in 'a' or 'o' isn't?

> > This style is starting to be alarmingly familiar ....
> 
> Yes, I was imitating a bit the weirdo calling himself "tholen" that 
> posted a few things here a month or two ago. I thought it might be 
> amusing since the latter bits of BGB's post weren't particularly 
> understandable or, apparently, relevant.

"We are not amused"?  (Well, I'm not.)  I figured the parts
of BGB's post that didn't make sense to me were a reference to
something I didn't know about.  I'd have guessed anime, that being
of Japanese origin and popular among (some) techie types, though
BGB's follow-up today indicates I'd have been wrong about that.
I don't mind the occasional digression, within reason.  I think
this one is about to exceed the limit, if it hasn't already, so
will try not to reply further.

-- 
B. L. Massingill
ObDisclaimer:  I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor.