[Babase] CADET
Jeanne Altmann
babase@www.eco.princeton.edu
Mon, 04 Oct 2004 15:23:16 -0400
good ideas but unfortunately ones we can go with for one or perhaps all of
the following:
--most Swahili gendered names are not in English and vice versa
--ran out of ones in both languages
--have other issues such as pronunciation, etc
--need 3-letter for lots of reasons at the data collection end
--would be too confusing to re-use letters at least for those of us who
have been around for 20yrs (raph, susan, me, soon serah) and perhaps for
others as well.
make sense susan?
jeanne
At 02:03 PM 10/4/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>On 2004.10.04 10:30 Jeanne Altmann wrote:
>>We just made a very frustrating discovery. Like WRINKLE, apparently
>>CADET was initially classified as a female and then subsequently was
>>found to be a male but that information never made it into the records in
>>some overt way.
>
>Perhaps the problem is that the names are not overtly 'gendered' as
>you've run out due to the unique 3 char Sname policy. I've no
>clue what changing this would mean to the project, but it's
>certainly possible to change things from the technical side.
>I don't have all the pluses and minuses at hand re 3 char
>Snames and so am not advocating alternatives, but consider
>that you could, for instance, go to 5 chars, 3 alpha
>followed by 2 numeric. Perhaps with a policy that the 3
>alpha not be reused while an individual is alive. Or
>something.
>
>And of course there's language and culture -- I've
>no clue if Omo is a female or male name so maybe this
>is not the answer.
>
>?
>
>Karl <kop@meme.com>
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