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It sounds antiquated and kind of icky to native speakers, so you don't ever have to do it yourself.
by idlewords 10y ago
It sounds antiquated and kind of icky to native speakers, so you don't ever have to do it yourself.
- stephengillie 10y agoIt's a throwback to an earlier time, when societal norms dictated social roles, and lonely sailors sought any reference to their opposite gender.
- frozenport 10y agoProbably not true. Are we to assume that the English/German navy was composed primarily of homosexuals? And can this difference be attributed to the comparatively longer voyages made by English sailors?
- kirrent 10y agoPresumably you'd say the same things about other traditionally gendered inanimate objects in english such as countries or the moon?
- stephengillie 10y agoYes.
- dredmorbius 10y agoI thought your first language was Polish. Which would make your comment other-than-first-person?
- idlewords 10y agoI will take Pepsi challenge on being native speaker of English any day of week.
- dredmorbius 10y agoDobrze grał, sir.
- idlewords 10y agoŁadnie rozegrane!
- mlvljr 10y agoGo for it, man!! [opens a beer can]