Computers

[nairi]

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?"

 

The teacher did not know, and the word wasn't 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 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 ("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 pay check 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'd waited little

longer, you could have gotten a better model.

 

The women won.

[Sip]

I would normally have a clever come-back for that one but I have learned that you just can't argue with women ... just like you can't argue with computers.

 

Funny stuff!

[Guest Fadi]

Nairi, "computer" is not a French word. OK I know it is meant to be a joke.

 

BTW Seaphan, why BSD is superior the Linux? (maybe it was posted already)

 

http://www.xs4all.nl/~marcone/bsdversuslinux.html

 

Since that proved me it is better, then I will brake my head and try to install that thing.

[nairi]

Nairi, "computer" is not a French word.

I know, but it doesn't change anything. "Ordinateur" is still masculine

[Harut]

http://www.xs4all.nl/~marcone/bsdversuslinux.html

not to offend anyone, but the more i see such nerdy computer people, the more i want to have nothing to do with computers.

[Accelerated]

LOL - look at the old man on the very right - hahaha. I betcha he's only 30 years old, just hasnt seen the sun for the past couple of years..........