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Comment by fenwick67

6 years ago

This is awesome. My computer shouldn't need a gender. It's a computer.

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dchest  6 years ago

A computer is a masculine noun in two of the languages that I use.

  • kaybe  6 years ago

    I'm sure you can find plenty of synonyms where it's feminine.

    • dchest  6 years ago

      Indeed, at least in Russian the original term ("electronic calculating machine"),which was used before "computer" was adopted, was indeed feminine.

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