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From: <bryanm@acsalaska.net>
Date: Tue Nov 22 2005 - 23:29:20 AKST

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 12:07:56PM -0900, Grant Stockly <grant@cmosxray.com> wrote:
>
> "The generator is considered as a peripheral device and act as a slave: it
> replies to all questions your system asks him"

You may already know this, but many European languages assign genders
to inanimate objects, just as a grammatical rule. So the above sentence
would be perfectly natural in the original language. Of course, it
sounds funny in English since we don't use the same gender rules.

okay, back to linux...

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Bryan Medsker
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