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 Is It Masculine Or Feminine
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A language instructor was explaining to her class that in French,nouns,unlike their English counterparts, are grammatically designated as masculine or femine.
One puzzled student asked,"What gender'is computer'?" The teacher did not know, and the word wasn't in her French dictionary .
So for enough,by gender and asked them to decide whether "computer" should be a masculine or feminine noun.
Both groups were required to give four reasons for their
recommendation.The men's group decided that computers should
definitely be of the feminine gender 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 every one else.
3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for possible later retrieval.
4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself
spending half your pay check on accessories for it.
The women's group,
however concluded that computers should be
masculine, because:
1. In order to get their attention you have to turn them on.
2. They have a lot of data but they are still clueless.
3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half of the time they are the problem.
4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you'd waited a little longer, you could have gotten a better model.
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Re: Is It Masculine Or Feminine (Re: elhilayla)
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A language instructor was explaining to her class that in French, nouns, unlike their English counterparts, are grammatically designated as masculine or feminine.
One puzzled student asked," What gender's computer'?" The teacher did not know, and the word was not in her French dictionary.
So for enough, by gender and asked them to decide whether "computer" should be a masculine or feminine noun.
Both groups were required to give four reasons for their
recommendation. The men's group decided that computers should
definitely be of the feminine gender 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 every one else.
3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for possible later retrieval.
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, because:
1. In order to get their attention you have to turn them on.
2. They have many data but they are still clueless.
3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half of the time, they are the problem.
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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Re: Is It Masculine Or Feminine (Re: elhilayla)
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By "nature" you are a proofreader, by profession u r an engineer and I shoud admit that I much liked that posting of yours sometime ago about mistakes in usage of Arabic vocabulary.
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 Re: Is It Masculine Or Feminine (Re: banadieha)
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Thanks a lot my dear.
Really feel very happy to C both of us here.
By the way I may blame myself.
But still I'm waiting for your e-mail.
Thanks 4 applauding.
But as U know I'm busy up to the neck in MCSE
please keep in touchy.
Sorry for the Interruption of the previous Post due to the A. M reason.
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