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Help[Opinions] Re: A Chinese young woman named...Felix
in reply to a message by Felie
Sometimes Chinese people pick English names of the wrong gender, just because they like the sound or meaning.
"We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, all this hardness; but we aren't like that really, I mean...one can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold...d'you see what I mean?”
John LeCarré
"We have to live without sympathy, don't we? That's impossible of course. We act it to one another, all this hardness; but we aren't like that really, I mean...one can't be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold...d'you see what I mean?”
John LeCarré
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It seems to be common in manga set in Western cultures, too. I've read a manga written by a Japanese woman but set in Victorian England, in which there were male characters called Esther, Cassandra and some other female name. And a girl called Drew, which was definitely not unisex in Victorian England!
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