On Sunday 27 July 2003 3:13 pm, Daniel Egger wrote: > > - I'm not sure which article to use for GIMP in German so I > normally don't write one. A male article sounds more strange than > none at all but if we can find a good ruling -- all the better. In Portuguese, the current use is for a male article - and trying making it female would be pretty bizarre. As fa as I can recall, all computer prograns or aplications are refered as male here. But anyway, many words have their genders swapped between German and Portuguese anyway. JS -><- --