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SoulRiser
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Spanish Computer
A SPANISH Teacher was explaining to her class that, in Spanish,
unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine.
'House' for instance, is feminine: 'la casa.'
'Pencil,' however, is masculine: 'el lapiz.'
So, a student asked, 'What gender is 'computer'?'
Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into
two groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves
whether 'computer' should be a masculine or a feminine noun.
Each group was asked to give four reasons for its
recommendation. The men's group decided that 'computer' should
definitely be of the feminine gender ('la Computadora'), 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.
(THIS GETS BETTER!)
The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be
Masculine ('el computador'), 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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Re: Spanish Computer
Pfft, computers are clearly girls.
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Re: Spanish Computer
Brilliant.
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Re: Spanish Computer
youvebeenthunderstruck Wrote:Pfft, computers are clearly girls.
Assuradly
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Re: Spanish Computer
meh, the masculine points are quite true too.
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lulz
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Re: Spanish Computer
The masculine points kinda disturb me >.<
Although I agree with point 1
Jesus backwards sounds like 'sausage'. =D
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I would HOPE that computers are girls..Because you think about laptops and where they are posistioned..and..well yeah if computers were men it would be just down right uncomfortable to think about.
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