Re: [ot] Linux gender in French
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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