Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"?

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Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"?

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RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"?

July 13, 2015 at 12:28 pm

(July 13, 2015 at 2:37 am)Atheist_BG Wrote: I've noticed only Americans tend to refer to cars and ships as "she". Why "she"? After all these are inanimate objects, so why the "she" pronoun?
Is it just ignorance or is it something else I don't understand?

I think they refer to ships as "she" because they are filled with seamen (semen).

Their cars for similar reasons. they are dirty dirty people. Tongue

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Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by rado84 - July 13, 2015 at 2:37 am

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by Excited Penguin - July 13, 2015 at 2:43 am

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by rado84 - July 13, 2015 at 3:16 am

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by Excited Penguin - July 13, 2015 at 3:23 am

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by rado84 - July 13, 2015 at 1:34 pm

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by Excited Penguin - July 13, 2015 at 1:40 pm

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by rado84 - July 13, 2015 at 1:53 pm

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by Pyrrho - July 13, 2015 at 1:45 pm

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by rexbeccarox - July 13, 2015 at 10:18 pm

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by Minimalist - July 13, 2015 at 2:45 am

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by Salacious B. Crumb - July 13, 2015 at 2:54 am

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - July 13, 2015 at 3:12 am

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by Pyrrho - July 13, 2015 at 12:24 pm

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by downbeatplumb - July 13, 2015 at 12:28 pm

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by FreeTony - July 13, 2015 at 1:13 pm

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by BrokenQuill92 - July 13, 2015 at 1:18 pm

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - July 13, 2015 at 6:56 pm

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by Anomalocaris - July 13, 2015 at 1:25 pm

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by Clueless Morgan - July 13, 2015 at 2:31 pm

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by Whateverist - July 13, 2015 at 2:32 pm

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by Cyberman - July 13, 2015 at 6:51 pm

Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by KUSA - July 13, 2015 at 6:45 pm

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by The Valkyrie - July 13, 2015 at 6:47 pm

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by Anomalocaris - July 13, 2015 at 11:04 pm

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by ignoramus - July 13, 2015 at 7:47 pm

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by tjakey - July 13, 2015 at 9:15 pm

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by ignoramus - July 13, 2015 at 9:20 pm

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by Rev. Rye - July 13, 2015 at 9:27 pm

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by rexbeccarox - July 13, 2015 at 10:22 pm

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by Rev. Rye - July 13, 2015 at 11:34 pm

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by Godschild - July 13, 2015 at 10:03 pm

Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by KUSA - July 13, 2015 at 10:37 pm

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by Anomalocaris - July 13, 2015 at 11:05 pm

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by rexbeccarox - July 13, 2015 at 11:41 pm

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by Whateverist - July 14, 2015 at 1:56 am

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by ignoramus - July 14, 2015 at 6:21 am

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by Regina - July 14, 2015 at 2:46 pm

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by dyresand - July 14, 2015 at 3:37 pm

RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"? - by Cyberman - July 15, 2015 at 12:15 pm

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