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View submission: Welp this is great isn't it? / s
Not only that but it's also helpful for international people as well. And no, this doesn't just refer to immigrants. If you work in any kind of business that is global you will probably end up in some kind of zoom or group call with international people. That's just how the world works now.
For example I was in a discord server and there was a person whose name was Karol. That was a guy. He was polish and that is a Polish name that is masculine in Poland.
Apparently Karen is also a name in German that is masculine. I'm sure that he is also waiting to call the manager.
Andrea sounds very feminine but is actually masculine in places like Germany. There's even a politician named Andrea. And I don't think he would be very happy being mistaken for a guy considering he is very conservative.
We all know that Ashley used to be a guy name and it still is in many other parts of the world such as in Europe.
But of course we know that Republicans also hate foreigners so this is totally on track.
Comment by SeaSnowAndSorrow at 01/02/2025 at 12:47 UTC
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I know a guy named Ashley!
Andrea is also pronounced more than one way, so having it in the bio "Ahn-dray-uh" or "Ann-dree-uh" is useful. I've met people who use both.
I think there's a divide between people who are like "I can just tell when I see them and that's what I'll use, why would you need that" vs people who are used to mostly text-based communication where they've made that mistake enough times accidentally that they see it as useful information.
And yeah. When you're communicating internationally, you just can't possibly know every semi-rare name in every language. It's way easier for people to just *tell you.*