Czech studies

[Miriam]

Is there ever any infallible indicator of anything in any language? :-)

MM

Zuzana Nagy wrote:

>Mr. Rechcigl uses an abbreviation of his first name i.e. Mila for
>Miloslav. The fact that there is an 'a' at the end of a first name is not
>always an infallible indicator of gender even in Czech, Slovak.
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>Zuzana Nagy
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>On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, karlahuebner at compuserve.com wrote:
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>>A little hard to tell, in this context. The Mila referred to in the
>>original email did not have an -ova or other feminine surname ending. I
>>know a male Czech Mila (I assume it is short for Milan in his case). There
>>are certainly Czech male diminutives ending in "a".
>>
>>Karla Huebner
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>>Original Message:
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>>From: KatarinaPeitlova peitlovakatarina at TISCALI.IT
>>Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:47:46 +0100
>>To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
>>Subject: [SEELANGS] Czech studies
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>>- not to "him" , but  to  HER. Mila   should be a woman.
>> Katarina
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Miriam Margala
Dept. of English, Dept. of Linguistics
University of Rochester
Rochester NY 14627


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