No sir, I am not that much in touch with my feminine side
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But idly I wonder about why my name seems so feminine to many non-Finns. The hotel tv greets me as "Mrs Jalkanen", and someone has placed a women's magazine on the table for my convenient perusal.
Well, no big harm done :). If some computer out there thinks I'm a woman, let it be. Computers need their fun, too.
Update: I need to check my handwriting. The hotel bill this morning was addressed to
- Mrs. Janne Jalkanen
Algrsis Rivon Katu
00510 Mozinski
Finland
NOT quite where I imagine living. And the poor clerk looked very confused as she looked me in the eye and went: "M...errr Jalkanen?", as she was trying to decide which one was correct: the computer or her eyes. :-D
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Ah, with me it's the other way around - I'm always Mr.--Milla, 26-Aug-2004
E-ending seems to be more feminine in some languages.
In the Reality Dysfunction series by Peter Hamilton, there's a female mercenary whose first name is Janne. It was a bit disorienting at first...
--Pare, 26-Aug-2004
Jane and Jan are both common female names in the USA. Maybe it thought it was a spelling mistake?
--JPS, 26-Aug-2004
Janne is actually a female name in Norway and the Netherlands, at least.
Luckily mine is so rare and its suggestive gender is wholly dependent on culture that people usually go with whatever I announce myself as. Except in the UK, where they lovingly embrace the jocular, suggestive undertones of it and insist on calling me 'Tiger'.
--Taika, 26-Aug-2004
You should change the spelling to that of the creepy new age Yanni, then people might know you're a man.
http://www.wapers.com/music/yanni/yanni1024.jpg
Or maybe not.
--http://bluehole.org/, 26-Aug-2004
Perhaps I'll just rather be myself and reap loads of fun every time someone else gets confused :-D
--JanneJalkanen, 27-Aug-2004
No, no, let ME be you (and you can be someone else). I've always wanted to be a world famous techno-geek/Finnish Blogger. Since I was a lad, Really!! :-) I'll even wear the dress!!
--Foster, 27-Aug-2004
Err... You're scaring me now, Foster :-D
--Janne Jalkanen, 28-Aug-2004