Re: [ot] Linux gender in French
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 22:17, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:53:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 21:01, John Hasler wrote:
> > > What is the gender of Unix?
> >
> > What is the gender of "geek"?
>
> I don't know what it is off the top of my head. It's always a tough call
> with foreign words. But I think the tendency nowadays is to have it be
> masculine if it refers to a guy and feminine if it refers to a woman.
>
> But if the word is plural and there's at least one masuline individual
> then the word is masuline.
>
> Il est un geek.
> Sa femme est une geeke.
> Leurs enfants, Lise, Claire et Paul, sont des geeks.
>
> A family of geeks :)
Hmm, I guess I'm not very good at sarcasm tonight....
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