<div dir="ltr">We don't have this problem in Arabic, although each word has a gender.<br>For example when talking about fedora, we use it as a male since the arabic word for operating system is male.<br>While when talking about redhat, we use it as a female, since companies are used as females when talking.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 April 2010 20:01, Nelson Marques <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:07721@ipam.pt">07721@ipam.pt</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Thanks all for the nice input of this. This is mainly because for the<br>
last 12 years I used "a kernel" (female) and while I use "o chapéu (the<br>
hat, male), I often use "a Fedora" (fedora, female). It sounds very<br>
weird in male. But I was not sure how most people handle/share this<br>
situations.<br>
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Neville: Portuguese and Spanish are probably more close than Portuguese<br>
(pt_PT) and (pt_BR). I can see this because in pt_PT scientific<br>
production is very rare in some areas like Marketing and everyone<br>
usually goes for English or Spanish production and not Brazilian (which<br>
is actually very rich, but misleading in most cases due to weird words).<br>
<br>
Example:<br>
<br>
Escopro (pt_PT): Mason tool to carve stone.<br>
Escopro (pt_BR): "in the scope of"<br>
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That and thousands more kill our minds everyday.<br>
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Anyway, thanks all for the valuable input. I'm going to keep in<br>
Portuguese as "a Fedora" (female), as it also fits well since community<br>
is female. Good idea.<br>
<br>
Thank all.<br>
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On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 23:54 +0100, Nelson Marques wrote:<br>
> A small question, when talking about Fedora, we should use it as male<br>
> or female? In portuguese there is no genitive or "it", nouns always have<br>
> gender, either male or female.<br>
><br>
> One strange example is kernel, where it is refered often as male and<br>
> other times as female 8)<br>
><br>
> Anyway, this probably is more in the field of translation teams, but do<br>
> we have anything set for this kind of situations ?<br>
><br>
> nelson.<br>
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