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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 2:32 pm)whateverist Wrote: Basically if you can get inside of it ..

In my case it's precisely because I can't get inside it.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"?
(July 13, 2015 at 1:18 pm)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: I suppose it could have to do with the innate possessiveness associated with owning a member of the female sex as well as a certain fondness for the object and a desire to personify something that essentially is responsible for the safety and welfare of those riding it. I’m rather surprised at myself for falling into the idiom without questioning it. It’s obviously sexist but perhaps not overtly misogynistic.


I was once owned by a tomcat I called 'Mrs. Hudson', after Sherlock's landlady.  Where do I fall on your sexist/misogynist scale?

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#23
RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"?
As with many language nuances, the Greeks, for instance place a male extension on some words and female on others.  Eg, animals, inanimate objects, etc. Just tradition I 'spose.
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#24
RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"?
Because they lure you in, take all your money, overwhelm your life, and sometimes kill you outright.

(My wife and I live on a sailboat.)
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RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"?
(July 13, 2015 at 9:15 pm)tjakey Wrote: Because they lure you in, take all your money, overwhelm your life, and sometimes kill you outright.

(My wife and I live on a sailboat.)

Photos please, or it didn't happen! Shy
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#26
RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"?
I think it has a lot to do with the fact that, from what I understand, most languages with genders (especially Latin, Navis), have decided it's a feminine word for whatever reason. I could be wrong about that.

Besides, could you imagine the crisis of sexuality that would result if all the guys who have sex with cars suddenly started to realise that the cars they fucked were male:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrLMLFE5Eec
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#27
RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"?
Simple, we love our Ladies.

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

The hypocrisy in this post is, literally, beyond comprehension.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
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RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"?
(July 13, 2015 at 9:27 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: I think it has a lot to do with the fact that, from what I understand, most languages with genders (especially Latin, Navis), have decided it's a feminine word for whatever reason. I could be wrong about that.

Besides, could you imagine the crisis of sexuality that would result if all the guys who have sex with cars suddenly started to realise that the cars they fucked were male:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrLMLFE5Eec

Oh, wow. That was uncomfortable to watch!
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
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Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"?
(July 13, 2015 at 6:47 pm)Beccs Wrote: Well, ships because they end up full of seamen...

So does Vorlon's ass.
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