Are Computers Men or Women ?!

**Abruzzy** · 03-15-2009

A language teacher was explaining to her class that in French, nouns unlike their English counterparts, are grammatically designated as masculine or feminine.”House” in French, is feminine -”la maison,” “Pencil” in French, is masculine “le crayon.”

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

* No one but their creator understands their internal logic
* The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else
* Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for possible later review
* As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheque on accessories for it.

The women’s group, however, concluded that computers should be masculine “le computer”) because:

* In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on.
* They have a lot of data but still can’t think for themselves
* They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem
* As soon as you commit to one, you realise that if you had waited a little longer you could have gotten a better model.

Share Your Ideas & feel free to VOTE !!

**El-Meghwar** · 03-15-2009

Computer in french is L'ordinateur...
so it is definitely masculine

**TAREK®** · 03-16-2009

in french u say un ordinateur that means its a man

(masculine)

**Tawa** · 03-16-2009

Computers Are Men, Cause They Can F#(K Your Mind Up.

**Jess** · 03-17-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tawa

Computers Are Men, Cause They Can F#(K Your Mind Up.

Agree

Because They irritate the crap out of you

SysTaMatIcS · 03-18-2009

a shemale it can f*$#k you up and they have their own logic and thinking .

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Computers Are Definitely Men!!	5	45.45%
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03-15-2009	#1
Abruzzy Vcoderz Team Last Online: 02-22-2014 Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 1,660 Thanks: 611 Thanked 1,370 Times in 806 Posts Groans: 19 Groaned at 31 Times in 26 Posts	Are Computers Men or Women ?! A language teacher was explaining to her class that in French, nouns unlike their English counterparts, are grammatically designated as masculine or feminine.”House” in French, is feminine -”la maison,” “Pencil” in French, is masculine “le crayon.” 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 * No one but their creator understands their internal logic * The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else * Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for possible later review * As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheque on accessories for it. The women’s group, however, concluded that computers should be masculine “le computer”) because: * In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on. * They have a lot of data but still can’t think for themselves * They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem * As soon as you commit to one, you realise that if you had waited a little longer you could have gotten a better model. Share Your Ideas & feel free to VOTE !! Last edited by Abruzzy; 03-15-2009 at 05:16 PM.

03-15-2009	#2
El-Meghwar Political Moderator Last Online: 04-22-2023 Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 3,146 Thanks: 1,466 Thanked 3,010 Times in 1,400 Posts Groans: 3 Groaned at 5 Times in 5 Posts	Computer in french is L'ordinateur... so it is definitely masculine __________________ ويل لأمة تكثر فيها المذاهب والطوائف وتخلو من الدين

03-16-2009	#4
Tawa  Last Online: 12-20-2021 Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 6,245 Thanks: 2,121 Thanked 3,365 Times in 1,740 Posts Groans: 29 Groaned at 44 Times in 35 Posts	Computers Are Men, Cause They Can F#(K Your Mind Up. __________________ What we do in life, echoes in eternity.

03-18-2009	#6
SysTaMatIcS Registered Member Last Online: 10-14-2022 Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 10,467 Thanks: 14,136 Thanked 4,244 Times in 2,547 Posts Groans: 186 Groaned at 198 Times in 120 Posts	*a shemale it can f$#k you up and they have their own logic and thinking .** __________________ problems of performance appraisal is that it sucks to memorize them

03-16-2009	#3
TAREK® ~ Golden Boy ~ Last Online: 06-14-2013 Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 11,464 Thanks: 11,906 Thanked 5,073 Times in 3,294 Posts Groans: 190 Groaned at 82 Times in 72 Posts	in french u say un ordinateur that means its a man (masculine)

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