A Spanish teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish,
unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or
feminine.
House for instance, is feminine: la casa. Pencil, however, is
masculine: el lapiz.
A student asked, What gender is computer?
Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two
groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves
whether computer should be a masculine or a feminine noun.
Each group was asked to give four reasons for its
recommendation.
The mens group decided that computer should definitely be of the
feminine gender (la computer), because: {...}
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