Kevin Street schreef: > I wrote: > > > ...and turning around all the cereal boxes in the supermarket so they > > > face french-side out... > > The Fool wrote: > > French side out? > > > > You baffle me. > > Well, there's an English side and French side to every box. Depending on > which side is facing you at breakfast, you could either be eating cereal or > c�r�ale, avec 7 vitamines et aliments. > > That's because Canada is supposed to have two official languages, with all > major labels written in both. > > It isn't necessarily *wrong* to have boxes facing French-side out, but it > annoys people sometimes. No doubt troublemakers in Quebec do the same thing > in reverse. > > Vive le revolution! ;)
<Nitpick> And even I know that 'revolution' is female ....so it should be 'la' revolution..... </Nitpick> But I wonder why that is. Anybody got an idea why some words are female, male or neutral in German and French... Any other languages that have genderspecific prefixes. Sonja
