We don't have this problem in Arabic, although each word has a gender. For example when talking about fedora, we use it as a male since the arabic word for operating system is male. While when talking about redhat, we use it as a female, since companies are used as females when talking.
On 17 April 2010 20:01, Nelson Marques <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks all for the nice input of this. This is mainly because for the > last 12 years I used "a kernel" (female) and while I use "o chapéu (the > hat, male), I often use "a Fedora" (fedora, female). It sounds very > weird in male. But I was not sure how most people handle/share this > situations. > > Neville: Portuguese and Spanish are probably more close than Portuguese > (pt_PT) and (pt_BR). I can see this because in pt_PT scientific > production is very rare in some areas like Marketing and everyone > usually goes for English or Spanish production and not Brazilian (which > is actually very rich, but misleading in most cases due to weird words). > > Example: > > Escopro (pt_PT): Mason tool to carve stone. > Escopro (pt_BR): "in the scope of" > > That and thousands more kill our minds everyday. > > Anyway, thanks all for the valuable input. I'm going to keep in > Portuguese as "a Fedora" (female), as it also fits well since community > is female. Good idea. > > Thank all. > > On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 23:54 +0100, Nelson Marques wrote: > > A small question, when talking about Fedora, we should use it as male > > or female? In portuguese there is no genitive or "it", nouns always have > > gender, either male or female. > > > > One strange example is kernel, where it is refered often as male and > > other times as female 8) > > > > Anyway, this probably is more in the field of translation teams, but do > > we have anything set for this kind of situations ? > > > > nelson. > > > > > -- > marketing mailing list > [email protected] > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing > -- Tareq Al Jurf Fedora Ambassador Riyadh, Saudi Arabia [email protected]
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