Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: give us a hand with arch

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 05:18:00PM +0200, Tobias C. Rittweiler wrote:
> > On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 16:32, Tobias C. Rittweiler wrote:
> > > Hmm, Andrea looks pretty much like a female firstname to me. Well, it's
> > > at the very least a female name in German. :-)
> 
> On Friday, September 26, 2003 at 4:51:20 PM,
>     Patrick Mauritz <address@hidden> wrote:
> > so Andrea Bocelli must be a female tenor, right? :-)
> 
> On Friday, September 26, 2003 at 3:42:57 PM,
>     Samium Gromoff <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Andrea is male.
> 
> On Friday, September 26, 2003 at 4:44:35 PM,
>     Zack Brown <address@hidden> wrote:
> > He's a guy.
> 
> 
> Oups. I actually thought something like that and didn't want to write
> anything about it, but then my familarity with the language usage of
> German combined with the knowledge about Latin induced me finally.
> 
> Never thought that the Italian people abused their latin origin
> that much. ;->

never mind, you're not the first one and you won't be the last one ;).
Andrea is a very very common male name in Italy, this is the source of
the confusion. The female version of the name is "Andreina" which is
very very uncommon (unlike Andrea).

Andrea - If you prefer relying on open source software, check these links:
            rsync.kernel.org::pub/scm/linux/kernel/bkcvs/linux-2.[45]/
            http://www.cobite.com/cvsps/
            svn://svn.kernel.org/linux-2.[46]/trunk