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#31 (permalink) Tue Jan 23, 2007 21:55 pm Does staying away from your country affect your vocabulary?

Conchita wrote:

Have a look at this (which makes me wonder what criterions were used when nouns were first given genders? It could be fun to make our own assumptions):

http://www.savageresearch.com/humor/style.html

A hard drive is female, because it remembers everything you've ever done wrong, even after you've changed, and then blurts it out at you or other people months later during some kind of conflict.

Conchita wrote:

I found this at the same time and it's just got to be from our Jamie:

http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/tchg/640/she-he-them.html

The funny part is that the guy who posted that automatically assumed that I was a "non-academic". He thought that either because I said I'd had a real job, or because my old e-mail address didn't end in "edu", or else because I wrote clearly.

I'd already solved that syntactic conundrum on my own, by the way, and I posted the query just to get confirmation.

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