Marc Schimmler wrote in message <391AC417.F45F4F03@ica.uni-stuttgart.de>...
>TonyB wrote:
>>
>Ships are female in german, too.
>Programs have a neutral gender.


hmph. Well after the results of this evening I can say that
my computer is definatly male!!!  *Tried* to install pws,
it crashed half way through and now won't even boot.

Tried to do something nice for it and see what I get...
<Walks away muttering and swearing in assorted languages>

Gail
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"Rick [Kitty5]" wrote:
> 
> > > : POV-Ray began it's existence in May of 1991 making the program 9 years
> > > : of age this month. Long may she live !
> > >
> > >   She?
> >
> > She!
> 
> please share how you managed to determine POVray's gender (or maybe we had
> better not know - oooo)

Because "she" makes my neural nets feel all warm and fuzzy inside when
I communicate with here.

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On Thu, 11 May 2000 12:00:40 -0400, Serge LAROCQUE
<sg_### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

>I think the Russians (in the days of the Soviet Union) had a male gender for
>their ships. At least they did in Tom Clancy books :-)

Depends on the type of ship. In Russian (and all Slavic languages) all
nouns have a gender. For example, in Bulgarian a boat is feminine and
a ship is masculine.


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YEeeeehaaaa!
See the birthday pic i posted.
it doesn't say Happy Birthday Povray, but it does say happy birthday....
;-)

Ken wrote:
> 
> Historical note:
> 
> POV-Ray began it's existence in May of 1991 making the program 9 years
> of age this month. Long may she live !
> 
> --
> Ken Tyler - 1400+ POV-Ray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
> http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/

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The 'she' confused me as well.

Both ship and program are masculine in french.





> TonyB wrote:
> >
> > >Never thought of it as female gender. It?
> >
> > Did you ever see the Saturday Night Live sketch in which these two guys are
> > talking about their wives and their ships?:
> >
> > -So, how's your wife?
> > --It's fine.
> > -And how's your daughter?
> > --It's doing great. It's birthday is coming up.
> > -That's nice. Congratulations.
> > --Thanks. Hey, I got a new boat.
> > -Really? What's she like?
> > --She's a real beauty.
> >
> > Notice the gender thing going on there? :)
>
> Ships are female in german, too.
> Programs have a neutral gender.
>
> Always.
>
> Marc
>
> --
> Marc Schimmler

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On Thu, 11 May 2000 20:16:30 +0200, "Johannes Hubert" <jht### [at] mailacom>
wrote:

>> Ships are female in german, too.
>
>Eeer.., like "das Schiff" and "das Boot" you mean? ;-)

...and Donaudampsschiff?




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On Thu, 11 May 2000 21:34:21 +0200, "Gail Shaw" <gsh### [at] monotixcoza>
wrote:

>hmph. Well after the results of this evening I can say that
>my computer is definatly male!!!  *Tried* to install pws,
>it crashed half way through and now won't even boot.
>
>Tried to do something nice for it and see what I get...
><Walks away muttering and swearing in assorted languages>
>
>Gail

Being probably the only woman around, this is quite challenging of
you! But what do you care, you're an aikidoka :)


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In Spanish, I think that things like ships, depending on the type, can be
both masculine and femenine (barco, barca). Computers can be either
masculine or femenine (computador, computadora, ordenador). Programs are
femenine (programa).

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Peter Popov wrote in message ...
>On Thu, 11 May 2000 21:34:21 +0200, "Gail Shaw" <gsh### [at] monotixcoza>
>wrote:
>
>>hmph. Well after the results of this evening I can say that
>>my computer is definatly male!!!  *Tried* to install pws,
>>it crashed half way through and now won't even boot.
>>
>>Tried to do something nice for it and see what I get...
>><Walks away muttering and swearing in assorted languages>
>>
>>Gail
>
>Being probably the only woman around, this is quite challenging of
>you!

<laughs> You think I don't know that? I just thought I'd see what the
reaction is.
I expected a stronger reaction, maybe the people here are more relaxed
than some of the ones I work with.

>But what do you care, you're an aikidoka :)

<grin> How's your aikido???

follow-ups to off topic (I hope)

Gail
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Johannes Hubert wrote:
> 
> "Marc Schimmler" <sch### [at] icauni-stuttgartde> wrote in message >
> 
> > Ships are female in german, too.
> 
> Eeer.., like "das Schiff" and "das Boot" you mean? ;-)
> 
> Johannes.

No Seaman would ever consider a ship different from female. It's her.
This has nothing to do with the grammatical gender of the nouns. :-)

Marc

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