[Healeys] Interesting old car pictures

[Guy R Day]

Everything french has been allocate a gender.  There is no rhyme nor reason 
as to which of the two genders the french have decided to use for any 
object.  BUT woe is you to choose the wrong gender as you not gain your exam 
results and you get laughed at in polite french society.  You get a couple 
of months in the Bastille in impolite french society.  If you refer to 
something as 'it' - gender neutral - you will be accused of murdering the 
french language and spend a couple of years in the Bastille followed by 
enforced signing up in the french foreign legion and you may not borrow my 
kepi or boots.

Seriously, to the best of my knowledge, there are no rules as to the 
allocation of gender to an object.

Guy R Day

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <robertduquette at sympatico.ca>
To: "Healeys" <healeys at autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Interesting old car pictures


> I'm not complaining.
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> Someone who is Francophone, please correct me, but I've been lead to 
> believe
> that there is a flow of speach that is involved in the gender designation.
> une flows better than un in front of the AC.  I could be completely wrong 
> ...
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>> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:18:09 -0500
>>
>> Nice pic, though I'm a bit surprised that she posed for that. It's
>> interesting that the French think an AC Cobra is feminine as in _une_ AC
>> Cobra rather than _un_ AC Cobra. If a Cobra isn't masculine, I'm not
>> sure what car would be. :-)
>> Charlie
>>
>> Alan Seigrist wrote:
>> > How about this old car pic?
>> >
>> > http://www.leblogauto.com/wpg2/?g2_itemId=163986
>> >
>> > Alan
>> >
>> > '52 A90
>> > '53 BN1
>> > '59 Jag Mk IX
>> > '64 BJ8
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