> A language instructor was explaining to her class that French nouns,
> unlike their English counterparts, are grammatically designated as
> masculine or feminine. Things like 'chalk' or 'pencil,' she
> described, would have a gender association although in English
> these words were neutral.
>
> Puzzled, one student raised his hand and asked, "What gender is a
> computer?"

What's amusing about all this is that depending on what word you use for "computer" in French, the thing is either masculine *or* feminine. Heh.

Wolf "and Computer Science is female" spirit