Re: FN-FORUM OT: (fun) Masculine or Feminine

date posted 22nd January 2003 15:06

for whom????..
ahem.

as much as for the girls me thinks..
shaf

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> Brilliant - one for the lads ... at last!
>
> Matt Thomas
> www.mushroomdesign.com
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>
> One puzzled student asked, "What gender is computer?"
>
> The teacher did not know, and the word was not in her French
> dictionary.
>
> So for fun she split the class into two groups appropriately enough,
> by gender, and asked them to decide whether "computer" should be a
> Masculine or a feminine noun. Both groups were required to give four
> reasons for
> their recommendation.
>
> The men's group decided that computer should definitely be of the
> feminine gender ('la computer"), because:
>
> 1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic;
>
> 2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is
> incomprehensible to everyone else;
>
> 3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for
> possible later retrieval; and
>
> 4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending
> half your paycheck on accessories for it.
>
> The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be
> masculine ('le computer") because:
>
> 1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on;
>
> 2. They have a lot of data but still can't think for themselves;
>
> 3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time
> they ARE the problem; and
>
> 4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a
> little
> longer, you could have gotten a better model.
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