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    Default Spanish 101

    Spanish 101
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    > 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'. >>> A student asked, "What
    > gender is 'computer'?"
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    >
    >
    >
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    > 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
    > 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.
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
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    >
    > The women's group, however, concluded that computers
    > should be masculine
    > ("el 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 had waited a
    >
    > little longer, you could have gotten a better
    > model.
    >
    >
    >
    > The women won!
    "smoking is one of the greatest and cheapest enjoyments in life,
    and if you decide in advance not to smoke, I can only feel sorry for you."-Sigmund Freud


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  2. Default definetly women

    Good joke, Definetly the compuer is a women

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