Gender of Computers
We all know that we are all discriminated between the Genders viz Male and Female. What about the Computers which is of every body's use and no spider work can be done without a Computer. Do you know its Gender ?
In Spain, a teacher was teaching in Class that in Spanish, Nouns are designated as Masculine or Feminine and that this is not in practice in English.Teacher further detailed to the students :
'House' for example is 'Feminine' - 'la casa'
'Pencil' is any how 'Masculine' - 'el lapiz'
Hearing this, a student got up and asked the Teacher - What about Computer Mam?
The teacher did not worry on that querry. She instead of giving the answer, split the class into two groups - male and female. Teacher asked them to find out whether the Computer noun was Masculine or Feminine themselves. Each group was asked to give Four reasons for their recommendation.
The Male Group recommended that Computer noun should surely be termed as 'Feminine'('la computadora' ) because :
(a) No one their creator understands their internal logic;
(b) The native language that they use to communicate with other computers is
in comprehensible to everyone else;
(c) Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory and for retrieval
later; AND
(d) As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself just half of
your pay packet for its accessories only.
The Female team did not lag behind. They vehemently told that Computer noun is Masculine ( 'el computador' )and placed the following four reasons :
(a) In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them ON;
(b) They have a lot of data but still unable to think on its own;
(c) They are supposed to help you solve problems but half the time
they are the problems; And
(d) As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited
a little longer, you could have got a better one.
The Female Team won.