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To me, any use of “she” to refer to ships (or countries, or whatever other inanimate things people sometimes call “she”) sounds dated, weird, and somewhat poeti
by School-Cotton 4y ago
To me, any use of “she” to refer to ships (or countries, or whatever other inanimate things people sometimes call “she”) sounds dated, weird, and somewhat poetic/figurative. I suspect this usage is almost totally dying out among the younger generations.
- CRConrad 4y ago> dated, weird, and somewhat poetic/figurative. Yeah, that's me. > almost totally dying out That too. > among the younger generations. That's not me.