Masculine or Feminine?

Category: Joke Board

Post 1 by Musical Ambition (I've got the gold prolific poster award, now is there a gold cup for me?) on Sunday, 11-Nov-2007 13:52:39

A Spanish teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike English,  nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine. 

"House" for instance, is feminine: "la casa." 

"Pencil," however, is masculine:  "el lapiz." 

A student asked, "What gender is 'computer'?" 

Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two groups,  male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves whether  "computer" should be a masculine or a feminine noun. 

Each group was asked to give four reasons for its recommendation. 

The men's group decided that "computer" should definitely be  of the feminine gender ("la computadora"), 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 ("el computador"),  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.

Post 2 by Blue Velvet (I've got the platinum golden silver bronze poster award.) on Sunday, 11-Nov-2007 15:23:28

LOL yeah.

Post 3 by jaguar (Addicted to the Zone) on Monday, 12-Nov-2007 7:55:16

Not bad, smile.

Post 4 by soaring eagle (flying high again!) on Monday, 12-Nov-2007 8:05:37

ha ha.

Post 5 by blbobby (Ooo you're gona like this!) on Monday, 12-Nov-2007 10:59:44

It'll do.

Bob

Post 6 by The Elemental Dragon (queen of dragons) on Wednesday, 14-Nov-2007 16:19:30

and what did the teacher say to those answers? hmm

Post 7 by Harmony (I've now got the silver prolific poster award! wahoo!) on Thursday, 17-Jan-2008 18:13:27

Hahahahahahaha! Funny. They should also be masculin because they don't work when you want them to work or they're always slow to load up! Hahahahahahahaha!

Post 8 by Eleni21 (I have proven to myself and the world that I need mental help) on Thursday, 17-Jan-2008 19:37:57

Good one and all true. Maybe, computers are hermaphrodites. lol

Post 9 by Lindsay3.14 (the Zone BBS remains forever my home page) on Friday, 18-Jan-2008 6:21:09

The funny thing about this is that there are actually both masculine and feminine words for computer, la computadora and el ordenador.