Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 04:09, Christophe Courtois wrote:
> Le Dimanche 2 Novembre 2003 05:17, Bijan Soleymani a déclamé :
> > > What is the gender of "geek"?
>  
>  The same as the person who is called a geek.
>  
>  (Pronunciation : djik , from English )

Jeek?  Not a "hard G", like the word Gaul?

> > Il est un geek.
> 
> "C'est un geek."
> 
> > Sa femme est une geeke.
> 
>  "Sa femme est une geek."  
> (no feminine form, this is not an adjective; and don't forget we have 
> difficulties making feminine forms of many words ;-)
> 
> > Leurs enfants, Lise, Claire et Paul, sont des geeks.
> 
>  Right. 
> 
> > A family of geeks :)
> 
>  Oh God...

Mon dieu!

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