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Location: Geneva - Switzerland ( Bordeaux - France / Montreal - QC - Canada)
Distribution: Slackware 14.2 - 32/64bit
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Originally Posted by gmgf
Some like him others less
we can not please everyone
Well I'm not talking about "the man", but "the actor", he still have played Cyrano de... Bergerac with quite some talent. I love this play, and I think he (and the whole cast) did a good job on it.
...A rookie coming here feels just like a cowboy visiting the Akademgorodok, because your stack is raised very high.
Maybe it can help you remember what it means to be a user, not a Linux developer and eminent contributor. Just saying...
No slight to new users was intended and apologies offered for any misunderstandings. I understood the post to which I replied to refer to this thread .
And I'm not a developer, just a (still learning) user
Well I'm not talking about "the man", but "the actor", he still have played Cyrano de... Bergerac with quite some talent. I love this play, and I think he (and the whole cast) did a good job on it.
BTW, in Romanian, "the computer" has "neutral gender", as its gender change depending in the grammatical constructs.
un computer (M), doua computere (F) (one computer, two computers)
I'm a bit late to this, but it reminded me of a joke I heard quite a while back...
Quote:
A language instructor 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 wasn't 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 feminine noun.
Both groups were required to give four reasons for their recommendation.
The men's group decided that computers should definitely be of the feminine gender ("la computer"), because:
No one but their creator understands their internal logic;
The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else;
Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for possible later retrieval; and
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:
In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on;
They have a lot of data but they are still clueless;
They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem; and
As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you'd waited a little longer, you could have gotten a better model.
@bassmadrigal: thanks for sharing, you made my day.
In French, since more than fourty years we say "un ordinateur", this is a masculine name. But before we used the word "calculatrice" (feminine).
Some strangeness: we have exactly three names that are masculine in the singular form, feminine in the plural one:
amour (love)
délice (delight)
orgue (organ)
Last edited by Didier Spaier; 12-10-2017 at 03:23 AM.
@bassmadrigal: thanks for sharing, you made my day.
In French, since more than fourty years we say "un ordinateur", this is a masculine name. But before we used the word "calculatrice" (feminine).
Some strangeness: we have exactly three names that are masculine in the singular form, feminine in the plural one:
amour (love)
délice (delight)
orgue (organ)
Interesting, even in Romanian those words behave the same way, but I suspect that we should "blame" the French for, because looks like they are imported from:
amor
deliciu
organ
Same sense of words, in the same order.
Last edited by Darth Vader; 12-10-2017 at 03:50 AM.
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