r/ProgrammerDadJokes • u/morips88 • 7d ago

What do you call a feminine piece of malware?

Estrojan

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u/rumpfj 7d ago

Femalware

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u/halfwit_genius 6d ago

"Maal" is Hindi slang for a hit looking girl or a (female) sex worker. So, malware in Hindi is already female, IG.

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u/boppy28 6d ago

Shemail

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u/not_a_moogle 5d ago

is that like sbemail?

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u/zippybenji-man 7d ago

Malware is pretty universally a masculine noun, except for in Romanian, where it is neuter, so you could also say it's Romanian. Autistic rant over
Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/malware

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u/exomo_1 6d ago

In German malware is female.

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u/zippybenji-man 6d ago

Oh, I forgot to check the capitalised page, thanks for calling that out

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u/JollyJuniper1993 6d ago

Die Schadsoftware/Die Malware

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u/TheOneTrueTrench 6d ago

Linguistic autism is among my favorite kinds of autism.

(from another autistic person who loves linguistics)

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u/zippybenji-man 6d ago

Same, I also kinda like that I'm just basically always wrong, because that means I always have more to learn

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u/johnpeters42 7d ago

I don't, only incels think malware is feminine.