RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"?
July 13, 2015 at 1:45 pm
(July 13, 2015 at 1:34 pm)Atheist_BG Wrote:(July 13, 2015 at 3:23 am)excitedpenguin Wrote: You sound boring!
Grammar is there for us, not the other way around. You can overstep it if you like.
It's not about fashion but about education. Using the wrong grammatical forms only tells other people you're not well enough educated. Just like many people (mostly Americans) don't know the difference between the conditional moods "was" and "were". While many people say "if god was real" the correct form is "if god were real". I don't know about you but I don't like people thinking about me I've skipped classes, which I've never done (cuz English classes were my favorites at school and I never skipped even one).
If you are going to criticize people for incorrect grammar, you should make a better effort to use correct grammar yourself. Your last sentence is a garbled mess. It is much worse than someone using "was" when "were" would be correct.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
