On 10/16/07, Brandon Stout wrote: > Clint Savage wrote: > > I'm under the impression that I either missed something, or that most > > people understand that the blootbot maintained by Tim Riker is, at > > least in our channels (#utah, #utos, #ubuntu-utah, #uphpu, etc), > > indeed *is* a girl. > > [...] Perhaps it's like a captain refering to > his ship; something like: "She's South of our destination, take her north".
In English, the feminine pronouns double as pronouns of personification. http://www.infynity.spodzone.com/rants/pc.shtml - Eric /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
