faq-pipe-gender: FAQ: What is the gender of the pipe?

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FAQ: What is the gender of the pipe?

Description

In Magritte's original quote "Ceci n'est pas une pipe," the word "pipe" is feminine. However the magrittr package quotes it as "Ceci n'est pas un pipe," with a masculine "pipe." This lighthearted misappropriation is intentional. Whereas the object represented in Magritte's painting (a pipe that you can smoke) is feminine in the French language, a computer pipe (which is an Anglicism in French) is masculine.


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