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;
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;
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.
Please comment back if you think this is the funniest thing you've heard since the last time you've checked my blog.
2007年9月29日土曜日
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i got this e-mailed to me on msn
i thought it was really funny
very funny, If I didn't know that this didn't really happen to you I would have thought that your spanish class is both sophisicated and cynical.
I agree that it's really funny.
nope, it didn't really happen
too bad
I Love this joke mitchell, its so true! haha
Very funny. I like. So what gender are computers really?
Verry funny. I would have voted saying that it was masculine. Their reasoning is better.
Haha, funny!
that is pretty funny!!
it is pretty funny
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