From: "Paolo Ciarrocchi" <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
To: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Franck <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>, "Andreas Ericsson" <ae@op5.se>,
"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Offtopic [Re: Can't use gitk.]
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2008 20:28:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4d8e3fd30811021128q5f172a97pbc8e657d08f9ac8c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511141005590.3263@g5.osdl.org>
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 7:24 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2005, Franck wrote:
Sorry for commenting on this email only now but I found it in my
archive while looking for a different thread :-)
>> oops, sorry Andreas for that ! I use to spelling this name without 's'
>> that's why I did the mistake I think.
>
> In Finland and Sweden Andrea without the "s" is a girls name, while
> Andreas with the "s" (or André without "-as") is a boy.
>
> It's not even very rare. "Andrea" was the 84th most popular female name in
> Sweden in 2000.
>
> It can be confusing, since in Italy (and, I think, southern Germany and
> much of Eastern Europe), "Andrea" is a boy, and in fact, the name
> originally comes from the Greek meaning "man".
In Italy Andrea might be a girl as well even if that name is often
used for a boy.
Ciao,
--
Paolo
http://paolo.ciarrocchi.googlepages.com/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-02 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-14 10:53 Can't use gitk Franck
2005-11-14 11:10 ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-14 11:22 ` Franck
2005-11-14 11:42 ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-14 11:55 ` Franck
2005-11-14 12:09 ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-14 14:00 ` Franck
2005-11-14 14:04 ` Wayne Scott
2005-11-14 14:31 ` Franck
2005-11-14 14:34 ` Andreas Ericsson
2005-11-14 13:45 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-11-14 14:13 ` Franck
2005-11-14 18:24 ` Offtopic [Re: Can't use gitk.] Linus Torvalds
2005-11-14 18:52 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-11-02 19:28 ` Paolo Ciarrocchi [this message]
2008-11-03 10:50 ` Andreas Ericsson
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