💻Meme: Subject: Are Computers men or women
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Depends on which voice you choose to make it speak to you.
💻Meme: A language teacher 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."
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: I get it. I did take French in school. But their language rules don't apply universally. Computer is masculine in their language… There are other languages that divy up nouns into masculine VS. feminine, too. I actually like the fact English doesn't do this.
💻Meme: One puzzled student asked, "What gender is computer?"
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Masculin. "'un' is masculin VS. *cough* 'une' feminine. A computer, in French is: 'un ordinateur'.
💻Meme: The teacher did not know,
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: So why didn't she look it up, or better still, tell her students to do so?
💻Meme: and the word was not in her French dictionary.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Methinks it's time she got a more up-to-date dictionary.
💻Meme: So for fun she split the class into two groups appropriately enough, by gender
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Oh, boy, I can just see where this is going.
💻Meme: and asked them to decide whether "computer" should be a masculine or a feminine noun.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: *Rolling eyes*
💻Meme: Both groups were required to give four reasons for their recommendation.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Urgh. Here we go. Brace yourself, extreme gender war lameness coming up.
💻Meme: The men's group decided that computer should definitely be of the feminine gender ("la computer"),
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Wrong.
💻Meme: because
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Notice how I wasn't asking why?
💻Meme: List of 4 items 1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: So what about external logic?
💻Meme: 2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Wrong. You'd be better off applying that one to certain fan bases like Trekies, LOTR's Elvish, otaku or any other fandom of a series that contains a language only the fans of that series are into. Male and female alike.
💻Meme: 3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for possible later review
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Gah I figured that would be in there somewhere… It too has been mangled!
💻Meme: 4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheque on accessories for it.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Wrong! Sure there are women like that, but I'm not one of them… Got that? I'm not one of those chain letter chicks.
💻Meme: list end
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Yeah, but there's still the lame one coming up from the female students.
💻Meme: The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be masculine "le computer") because:
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: And they're still wrong. It's 'un ordinateur'.
💻Meme: List of 4 items
1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: *Facepalm* Bleck! Actually that isn't even true. I could do something like break my computer over your head and send a pretty clear message, without turning it on. But I won't. don't want to risk damaging a good computer.
💻Meme: 2. They have a lot of data but still can't think for themselves
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: I would argue the same is true for chain letter chicks. That's why they're such carbon-copies of one another. Or all made from the same mould. something like that.
Chain; 3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: and you chain chicks are half the problem the rest of the time.
💻Meme: 4. As soon as you commit to one, you realise that if you had waited a little longer you could have gotten a better model.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Bleck! Spoken like a chain chick.
Assignment flunked, class dismissed.
Over and out.