Robert Black Eagle wrote:
The U.S. Navy tried that and was forced by public outcry to go back to the poliyically incorrect she for ships. I guess the Mother country still has some catching up to do. But, what the heck they still haven't installed the metric system.-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jane's Ships (a UK source) now uses "it" instead of "she" for ships, but everyone else still uses "she". Dogs of unknown gender are normally "he" and cats of unknown gender are "she" for most people. I can't recall any other exceptions. Individuals sometimes use "he" or "she" affectionately for personal items, such as cars.
Now you want confusion, try to explain how and where to use "the" in English. If you say you live int THE Paris, you mean you live in Paris, France and not, let us say, Paris, Texas. However, how would you make that reference to The Hague (where "The" is part of the name)? And there are other confusing uses for "the", some of which are dialect variations
There are specific cases for the use of the articles a and the. The is used when describing a specific unit from a universe of like units, such as the Beast Who Ate Toyko. Only one particular beast out of an entire universe of beasts actually ate Toyko. If you used A Beast who Ate Toyko it could be any beast out of the universe of beasts.
. On Thursday 21 November 2002 9:07 am, Net Llama! wrote:AFAIK, only ships are referred to as women. Everything else is gender neutral. On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, m.w.chang wrote:I learnt my english while Hongkong was still a british colony (ok, she's called United Kingdoms now). You sure that it's "its" not "her"? Is that how United Nations described other nations?And, finally, while I'm ranting, the proper pronoun is "its," not "her." As in, "Then every government can design *its* own security schemes around the kernel." Kurt- -- Robert Black Eagle Liberty is an Open Government and Privacy for Civilians. Tyranny is a Closed Government and No Privacy for Civilians. Use PGP or GPG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE93R7ptjSYKkYJrmcRAqVzAJ9/g0xMuEz1/d3JmK8bcUop7aOt6wCeKj4c l5NhQGjZjjl1A8FHm/nr2YA= =1HQh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
