February 4, 201016 yr Is a computer male or female? 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 paycheck on accessories for it. The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be masculine ("le computer"), 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 the time they ARE the problem; and 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.
February 4, 201016 yr Interesting, even before reading the whole post my first thought was Le computer, naturallement
February 4, 201016 yr So, since there are traits both masculine and feminine, the gender assignation would have to be the same as that for a ladyboy.
February 5, 201016 yr Seeing as it has a hard drive...... Mine also occassionally asks me to insert my disc...... both traits, again.
February 5, 201016 yr Seeing as it has a hard drive...... Mine also occassionally asks me to insert my disc...... both traits, again. Hmmmmm.......... sex and my poota RAM, random access memory, sounds like my life. ROM, read only memory, Playboys, Hustler...etc. Conclusion, its a beetch, therefore, a femme.
February 5, 201016 yr Seeing as it has a hard drive...... Mine also occassionally asks me to insert my disc...... both traits, again. Hmmmmm.......... sex and my poota RAM, random access memory, sounds like my life. ROM, read only memory, Playboys, Hustler...etc. Conclusion, its a beetch, therefore, a femme. Your "beetch" also has a hard disc.....and goes into sleep mode if left alone for a certain amount of time...he's a he, too.
February 5, 201016 yr My com is a sequential hermaphrodite after several software and hardware modifications
February 5, 201016 yr I don't know about computers, but Thai internet is certainly female. It changes at a moment's notice. It is not reliable and acts unreasonably. You seldom get what is advertised and you've already paid for. It shuts down the moment you start getting interested and spent time working on.
February 5, 201016 yr In the German language a computer has 2 names, both masculine. The hard disk,. mouse and cds/DVDs are all feminine, files are feminine and programs are neuter, as are the Net, netbooks and laptops.
February 5, 201016 yr I don't know about computers, but Thai internet is certainly female. It changes at a moment's notice. It is not reliable and acts unreasonably. You seldom get what is advertised and you've already paid for. It shuts down the moment you start getting interested and spent time working on. Gosh, that sounds more like its male to me.
February 5, 201016 yr I don't know about computers, but Thai internet is certainly female. It changes at a moment's notice. It is not reliable and acts unreasonably. You seldom get what is advertised and you've already paid for. It shuts down the moment you start getting interested and spent time working on. Gosh, that sounds more like its male to me. fits either sex equally well, sbk. Depends on the whose perspective.
February 5, 201016 yr I've changed my mind...instead of being the electronic equavalent of transexuals because they exhibit both male and female traits.....from observing all the posts in this thread, including the OP, I suggest that computers take on the gender that is opposite to the gender of the user. They are therefore gendermetamorphic and can be referred to as either feminine or masculine, depending on whether the speaker is masculine or feminine, respectively.
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