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Re: [ot] Linux gender in French



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 )

> 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...

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