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建议 Computers - masculine or feminine?
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A language teacher was explaining to her class that in French, nouns, unlike their English counterparts, are grammatically designated as masculine or feminine.
For example, "House" in French, is feminine - "la maison", "Pencil" in French, is masculine - "le crayon". One puzzled student asked, "What gender is a 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 or 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 review; and
4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your pay 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.
电脑——男的、还是女的？
对不住了各位，哈哈，今天心情无限好啊…………………………（原文如此，非译者加……）
一位法语老师向全班讲解“法语中的名词”时说，不像我们英语，法语语法把名词分为“阴”“阳”，即“男”“女”。
举两个例子，法语里“house（住宅）”具阴柔之美，叫“la maison”；“pencil（铅笔）”在法语里叫“le crayon”，有阳刚之气。
一个小男孩很纳闷，于是问：“那电脑是男是女？”由于法语大词典里没这个词，老师也不知道。
为了活跃一下气氛，她将全班按男女分成两组，并让学生决定“电脑”是“阳性”词还是“阴性”词。
此外，两组要提出四条理由。
男生组决定，电脑必然应该归属女生（la computer），原因如下：
1、除了制造者，没人知道其内在逻辑；
2、别人不能理解其交流用语；
3、就算丁点的错误也会得到长期储存，以备不时之需；
4、一旦准备出手了，你马上就会发现：附件花了一半的钱。
相反，女生组总结说，电脑应该是男生（le computer），原因如下：
1、与其相处，还须接上“电”，然后开机；
2、存有大量数据，却依然不能为自己思考；
3、一般会帮你解决问题，但大半时间其本身就是“问题”；
4、一旦准备买一台，马上就意识到，如果多等等，就买更高配置的了。
