Gender [was: Re: Cancel a repeat with a button]

[Colin Holgate]

On May 14, 2009, at 1:18 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> I thought of you. :) I still have to figure out Shao Sean. The only  
> thing I remember is that his/her name is backward to Western  
> conventions. English needs a non-gender human pronoun.

Even I have trouble sometimes. There seem to be a number of Americans  
who don't know the name Colin, and hear it as Colleen. As my voice  
doesn't quite match Lee Marvin's for pitch, I do occasionally have to  
explain to phone operators that no, I'm not Colleen.