[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [OT] Grammatic gender
From: |
J Martin Rushton |
Subject: |
Re: [OT] Grammatic gender |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Nov 2017 22:14:55 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 |
On 15/11/17 14:59, Wols Lists wrote:
> On 15/11/17 01:13, Andrew Bernard wrote:
>> Often people refer to boats as 'she', but that's not a part of grammar.
>
> And the same boat is, so I understand, usually referred to BY THE CREW,
> as "he". So your own boat is "he", others are "she".
>
> Cheers,
> Wol
>
I've never heard of that before, certainly not in British maritime
usage. The skipper of another vessel is (by default) assumed male, so
the sentence "She'll be on the rocks if he doesn't watch out" makes
perfect sense.
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
- Re: double time signature problem, (continued)
- [OT] Grammatic gender, Simon Albrecht, 2017/11/14
- Re: [OT] Grammatic gender, Andrew Bernard, 2017/11/14
- Re: [OT] Grammatic gender, Jacques Menu Muzhic, 2017/11/15
- Re: [OT] Grammatic gender, Karlin High, 2017/11/15
- Re: [OT] Grammatic gender, Hilary Snaden, 2017/11/15
- Re: [OT] Grammatic gender, David Wright, 2017/11/15
- Re: [OT] Grammatic gender, Wols Lists, 2017/11/15
- Re: [OT] Grammatic gender, Urs Liska, 2017/11/15
- Re: [OT] Grammatic gender,
J Martin Rushton <=
- Re: [OT] Grammatic gender, Blöchl Bernhard, 2017/11/15
- Re: [OT] Grammatic gender, Helge Kruse, 2017/11/15
- Re: [OT] Grammatic gender, Kieren MacMillan, 2017/11/15
- Re: [OT] Grammatic gender, Karlin High, 2017/11/15
- Re: [OT] Grammatic gender, David Wright, 2017/11/15
- Re: [OT] Grammatic gender, David Kastrup, 2017/11/15
- Re: [OT] Grammatic gender, Wol's lists, 2017/11/15
- Re: [OT] Grammatic gender, Erik Ronström, 2017/11/16
- Re: [OT] Grammatic gender, David Wright, 2017/11/15
- Re: [OT] Grammatic gender, N. Andrew Walsh, 2017/11/16