Author: Tony Hedlund
Date: 03:23:35 05/08/99
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On May 07, 1999 at 08:45:48, Harald Faber wrote: >On May 06, 1999 at 12:48:12, Tony Hedlund wrote: > >>>>>Fine, this will bring back some points to MCP. He deserves them. >>>> >>>>He? >>>>Tony >>> >>>MChess8: 2481 >>>Nimzo99: 2565 >>> >>>So this 20.5-19.5 will give MCP8 some points, right? >> >>Yes, of course. I just wondered why you call MCP8 for he? A program has no >>gender has it? I just tried to be funny, sorry. >>Tony > >Argh! My fault, I read it as a 'hä?' which is spoken like He? in German, in the >sense of 'what?' > >And besides it also sounds funny to speak of programs and IT. Given names they >get some kind of personality thus humans tend to call them HE or so... >However this is funny in either case. :-) I see. In fact we have the spoken 'hä?' as 'what?' in swedish too. Tony
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