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Old 10-10-2012, 09:14 AM   Top  -  End  -  #504
GolemsVoice
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Default Re: Musings on Language #2

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Assigning gramatical genders to objects would be one that Germans probably do a lot. In English it's only done with ships or rarely countries. (Interestingly, in German specific ships are also feminine, while neither the words ship or boat are. Probably a tradition that doesn't have anything to do with grammar.)
Ships are called she. I bet torpedoes don't.
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