Posted by: ladymindy on Saturday, August 28, 2004 - 05:00 AM
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The Gender Debate Of Computers
A language instructor 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?" (click to read more)