Mary has low self-esteem. - English example sentence

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tommy_san May 2, 2014, edited May 4, 2014 May 2, 2014 at 5:30:20 AM UTC, edited May 4, 2014 at 8:39:48 AM UTC

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> I personally wish you wouldn't create such obvious "near duplicates."
>
> http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/3222882
> Tom has low self-esteem.
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> I'd suggest using the male name Tom, in all cases where a female name isn't required, like "Mary is pregnant."
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> Would it be OK with you if a corpus maintainer just went ahead and deleted this one for you?

Then you'd need to delete one of these because they're unnecessary for learners of English.

http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/2944721
Every time Tom shows up, it rains. (CK)
http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/2944724
Every time Mary shows up, it rains. (CK)

And one of because they're unnecessary for learners of German.

http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/2930061
Tom ist blond. (Pfirsichbaeumchen)
http://tatoeba.org/eng/sentences/show/2930062
Maria ist blond. (Pfirsichbaeumchen)