Joe Smith wrote:
Gerrit said:
Actually Gerrit is a male and
Yeah, I had always suspected such :D
Corinna is a female name,
Again I suspected this.
However, oddly, you identified your own gender, but for Corinna, you
merely noted that by custom,
that name is assigned to females. You did not state the fairly obvious,
but never-the-less important fact
that this Corinna is indeed female.
No, you've misread how this slightly complicated english language
construction is meant to be read:
Actually Gerrit is a male and Corinna is a female name,
that is to say (use monospaced font to read this:)
/ Gerrit is a male \
Actually< (and) >name.
\ Corinna is a female /
Or IOW, it should be read as "Actually Gerrit is a male name and Corinna is a
female name", but we elide the repetition of "name". Think of it like
associativity in maths: (a + b) x c == (a x c) + (b x c). It could also be
written: