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Re: Sexism At Debian



El mié, 23 de ene de 2002, a las 11:13 +0100,
 MPfeifer decía que:

> well... maybe my italian slang is not the best, but
> i still cannot see why an italian potato should be
> sexual. apart from the english language having less
> sex-appeal of course.
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In spanish potato is "patata", and it's gender is female (we have sex
for all our nouns), i love to have a female O.S. :)

examples:

the table   (female)   "la mesa"
the potato  (female)   "la patata"
the car     (male)     "el coche"
the O.S.    (male)     "el sistema operativo"


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