[Year 12 IPM] A little humour ...

[Graham]

G'day

A little humour .....



A language teacher was explaining to her class that in French, nouns  
unlike their English counterparts, are grammatically designated as  
masculine or feminine.

"House" in French, is feminine-"la maison"

"Pencil" in French, is masculine - "le crayon"

One puzzled student asked, "What gender is computer?" The  teacher  
did not know and the word was not in her French dictionary. So for  
fun she split the class into two groups appropriately enough, by  
gender, and asked them to decide whether "computer" should be a  
masculine of a feminine noun.  Both groups were required to give four  
reasons for their recommendation.

The men's group decided that computer should definitely be of the  
feminine gender ('la computer"), because:

1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic
2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers  
is incomprehensible to everyone else;
3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for  
possible later retrieval; and
4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself  
spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.

The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be  
masculine ('le computer") because:

1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on;
2. They have a lot of data but still can't think for themselves;
3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the  time  
they ARE the problem; and
4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a  
little longer, you could have gotten a better model.

The women won.





Graham Gales
Bright P-12 College
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