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I'm gonna be a pedantic Portuguese speaker and point out that they should've named it Parceira.

Amigo parceiro.

Amiga parceira.

To be clear, I mean to this lightheartedly. Great work!

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Unless they meant it to be the Amiga's partner, which in any case isn't grammatically correct. :)

Crap, that didn’t occur to me at all! And now I realize that that’s what they probably meant facepalms

Hehe, had the same reaction to the name, but when I think about the word for 'computer' in Brazilian Portuguese (which is the one I'm fluent in), it makes more sense: 'computador parceiro'. Still weird phrasing, but... less grammatically challenging :P

I've studied romance languages and I've always wondered... how jarring is it for a native speaker when grammatical gender is incorrect? In other words, how "wrong" does it sound when someone swaps the o/a on a word? Do you have to stop and think for a split second to make sense of what is being said, or does it still make sense without extra thought?

REALLY wrong. it's like when people say "an university" -- it sounds so so so wrong!

you can 100% understand what the person said, but you know it's not right.

I get what the person means immediately, but it is quite jarring.

Interestingly enough, HP had a computer named "Amigo". It was a stack-based architecture and many of its features moved on to the HP-3000 line. It had the same widescreen monochrome CRT that went in their intelligent terminals, with function keys on the right of the screen.

I think it could do graphics at resolutions higher than the Amigas, but no sound.

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