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Title: The gender of a computer
Post by: faust82 on September 27, 2012, 09:26:44 AM
A teacher tells the class that unlike english, all german nouns have a gender, be it male or female. (Eh, yeah... about that, seeing as how this isn't an issue in english, we didn't learn the grammatical terms for it. Hope I translated this right.)
One of the students raises his hand.
- What gender is a computer?
The teacher isn't quite sure, so she splits the class into two groups, boys and girls, and have them come up with four reasons for why a computer is one gender or the other.

The girls arrive at the conclusion that a computer is male. The reasons are obvious.
- You have to turn it on to get it's attention
- It contains a lot of data it doesn't quite understand
- It's supposed to help you with your problems, but most of the time, it IS the problem
- As soon as you get one, you realize you could have gotten a better one if you'd just waited for a bit

The boys arrive at the complete opposite. In their minds, the computer can be nothing but female.
- Only their creator can understand their inner logic
- They use an incomprehensible language to communicate with eachother
- Even the slightest mistake is stored in the long-term memory to be recalled at a later date
- As soon as you get one, you start spending half your paycheck buying accessories
Title: The gender of a computer
Post by: Ranualf on November 04, 2012, 11:40:09 AM
lol thats a good one !
Title: The gender of a computer
Post by: Switchback on November 04, 2012, 01:04:24 PM
/like


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Title: The gender of a computer
Post by: Slush on November 07, 2012, 10:22:39 AM
Loved it. :roflmao: