Re: [External] : Re: Goodbye to Thien-Thi Nguyen

[Bob Newell <bobnewell@bobnewell.net>]

Amin, thank you so much for the clarification.  I was conjecturing
based on what I know about Vietnamese naming conventions.  "Thi" is
very unusual as a male name as I am told (by Vietnamese).

But certainly none of this detracts from TTN's quirky and ever-present
sense of humor and the many, many contributtions.

On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 2:45 PM Amin Bandali <bandali@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Bob, all,
>
> Thanks for your replies, and for sharing and helping keep Thien-Thi's
> memory alive.
>
> However, Thien-Thi/ttn was in fact a "he": ttn's mastodon profile
> bio starts with "Sono un Programmatore" (masculine) - as opposed to
> e.g. "una programmatrice" (feminine) - and ttn referred to himself as
> a husband and father in his writings.  I'd also seen photos of ttn,
> and several other GNU hackers who knew ttn (likely much better than
> I did) refer to ttn using the he/him pronouns.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> -a



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