[pmmail-list] OT Gender (was Re: Pendatic but Wrong!)

[Simon Bowring]

On Tue, 06 May 2003 22:47:44 +0200 (CEST), Frank Winkler @home wrote:

>Also wrong IMO. Both words exist, whereby the male "virus" is what we're 
>talking about here and the neutral "virus" is the alien thing that causes 
>serious diseases :( ...

How did that happen!?  The word for the biological (i.e. sometimes 
pathenogenic) "wetware" virus came first; so I would have expected 
the "software" virus (which is named after it's wetware 
counterpart) to follow it's gender too!  Or is this just a 
convention to distingiush between the different usages?

Simon
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