Gender-confused newspaper kids? Or me being ignorant?
pbox:
Wow, live and learn =).
"Angel", actually, I can see -- there is the Italian "Angelo" after all, and an Engel (german for the mythical figure) is gramatically male, as well. Italian names are often quite confusing for germans though, since in German pretty much anything ending in a vowel will be regarded as female -- "Andrea" for example is a common german female name, but in Italian it's male. German naming rules (this is Germany, we have laws for that, in case you weren't aware =P) are very strict, which probably added to my confusion -- one basic rule is that gender must be apparent from a person's name, the very few ambiguous names we have can only be used as a second name.
We don't have that in German at all, but "speaking names" or whatever the proper term is for that -- Hope, Joy, Grace, and such -- I would assume would be gender neutral anyway ("Angel" isn't quite the same thing, but pretty close in my eyes).
And I didn't know Tracy Morgan -- the first Tracy that came to my mind was Tracy Chapman.
Alex:
I remember within the first hour of playing TS3, my sim's townie lover named their baby daughter Joey. Now I know that it can be a girl's name, but it just screamed fail to me how the game chose that particular name out of all the possible female (and indeed femenine) names.
Writin_Reg:
Yeah, but Tracy Chapman is female.
phyllis_p:
I know a young man whose first and middle names are Tracy Lynn. I'd never heard Lynn as a man's name until I moved to the rural midwest. Now I live in the south, and there are at least two male Lynns in our organization. (Notably, neither go by Lynn; they answer to their middle names). Tracy, I'd heard for males before, but it is also one of my names (I have a plethora of middle names), and despite what Pescado says, I am female.
Swiftgold:
Had a townie toddler with close-cropped hair named Stacey and I finally found out it was a guy when he became a teenager recently. I wonder if one of the parents had the Inappropriate trait, now that I think of it, because I believe someone mentioned that Sims with those traits might autonomously give their kid a name from the wrong gender's list...
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