Amiga is female right?

[kolla]

Amiga, because m comes before p and t in the alphabet, and female because it was a little different at the time. Not to be confused with novia.

[psxphill]

Amiga, because m comes before p and t in the alphabet, and female because it was a little different at the time. Not to be confused with novia.

I'm sure someone said they nearly went with Amigo but changed it because Amiga sounded nicer. But all of the old stories have been re-told so many times that whether they are the truth or not is difficult to tell.

[paul1981]

I've never once thought any of my Amiga's are female. Computers are all male to me. Cars can be female, mine is called Belinda. Perhaps the A600 could be considered female though being as though Commodore called it 'June Bug'.

I wonder if female Amiga users (if there are any) consider them to be female, whereas male users consider them to be male. I'm thinking this could apply to all computers and not just Amiga's.

[vince_6]

Poll now %&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!128518;

[danbeaver]

I refer to all of mine as, "Amy" -- Shh, I just don't tell the other Amigas that.

[gertsy]

Happy to create a poll, or polls. Probably need one for each Amiga. Perhaps the poll can suggest alignment to current or "older" celebrities.
Any suggestions on types like agami has?

[Crumb]

@woof
in Spanish it happens exactly like French: we omit the word "ordenador" (computer) but the masculine article remains, so we talk about "el Amiga". There's no possible confusion with "female friend" (at least in computing context)

however, in Latin-American Spanish sometimes they use the word "computadora" instead and they also omit it so they use the feminine article "la Amiga", causing slight confusion to Spanish readers. :-)

[Jose]

And in Portuguese it's exactly the same name and meaning... And even usage, I remember we as kids talked about "O Amiga" (i.e. "El Amiga" in spanish), no need to say it's a computer...

[QuikSanz]

And AmigaOne would be "girlfriend #1" ;-)

[RobertB]

however, in Latin-American Spanish sometimes they use the word "computadora"...

Aqui en California hay muchas personas quien hablan espanol, y nunca usamos la palabra, "ordenador."  Usamos "computadora."

FCUG celebrando 33 anos,
Robert Bernardo
El club de usuarios de Comodoro de Fresno
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

[agami]

@agami, how cool! Did you just make that up or source "derive" from somewhere else. Now that's what I'm talking about!

Just thought of it then. But I do like to anthropomophosize, and I do it often.

[WeiXing3D]

Aqui en California hay muchas personas quien hablan espanol, y nunca usamos la palabra, "ordenador."  Usamos "computadora."

FCUG celebrando 33 anos,
Robert Bernardo
El club de usuarios de Comodoro de Fresno
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

And to add to what Bernardo has so eloquently spoken, Commodore Amiga was founded and located in Santa Clara, Santa Clara County, the heart of Silicon Valley.

The name Amiga was picked on a rush right before a big computer fair, so that Amiga was listed in the program before Apple.

[woof]

There is only one thing that PROVE that the Amiga is a female computer : It is the way you real girlfriend hate it when you spend too much time with your Amiga  ;-)

Alain Thellier

[paul1981]

There is only one thing that PROVE that the Amiga is a female computer : It is the way you real girlfriend hate it when you spend too much time with your Amiga  ;-)

Alain Thellier

LOL!! You may be onto something here

[gertsy]

There is only one thing that PROVE that the Amiga is a female computer : It is the way you real girlfriend hate it when you spend too much time with your Amiga  ;-)

Alain Thellier

Too true. I used to spend hours on Music-X and Tiger Cub and my Girlfriend at the time was most put out. But I never considered I was spending time with another girl....

[Crumb]

Aqui en California hay muchas personas quien hablan espanol, y nunca usamos la palabra, "ordenador."  Usamos "computadora."

FCUG celebrando 33 anos,
Robert Bernardo
El club de usuarios de Comodoro de Fresno
http://www.dickestel.com/fcug.htm

Castilian speaking latin-americans I know use "computadora" mostly but they understand "ordenador" too.

In latin american Spanish speaking countries youth tend to use English words instead of Spanish ones, and also to create "barbarisms" probably due to lack of knowledge of the language. I would say that grandsons of Spanish speaking people who moved to usa have a very restricted vocabulary of let's say 200 words. that's why some of them eat muffins instead of magdalenas and have lunch instead of "comida" o "almuerzo". And some of them use "chingar" as the "smurfs" used the word "smurf". I remember some discussions between a translator friend and a grand grand grand son of mexicans born in usa who claimed to speak Spanish.

please note that people from Latin American countries, specially old ones have a very rich vocabulary but in the younger generations TV has probably ruined it. Years ago you could listen to natives who were born in the jungle and they spoke better than most of people of Spain. Now it's all 'spanglish'

PS: thanks for trying to write in Spanish but next time please don't use google translate ;-)