“If you are dealing with an international contact but don’t know if they are a man or a woman, try typing their first name into a image search engine like images.google.com (e.g., “Priti“). Watch out for unisex names, though.”
via Tricks of the Trade
This is one of those tips which are very simple, pretty damn obvious, but yet never crossed my mind.
I deal with people from other countries all the time, but have never been good with names – To test this, I used Vietnamese and Thai names, which had always given me most trouble. Works beautifully.
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April 20th, 2006 at 7:41 am
I did this on monday to see what pronoun to use in an email.
April 20th, 2006 at 2:07 pm
lol, i didn’t think of that…
April 20th, 2006 at 3:19 pm
Very risky, though. See what happens with Andrea when you add the family name: Andrea+Pirlo.
October 26th, 2006 at 10:47 pm
Years ago, I was contacted by a sri-lankan named Shanake. For months, I never knew whether I had to say “he” or “she”…
Then I met HIM.
I just tried a google image search for “shanake” and, needless to say, it didn’t work…
October 28th, 2006 at 8:00 am
Lugalle: Must have been one of those Unisex names. Image searches did tend to suggest it was predominantly female.