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Actually in Russian a ship 'goes' :)

• patio11 12y ago
  Thanks for the correction -- my memory is apparently failing me.
  • omonra 12y ago
    It's one of these things that many people may not actually know (like how a ship in english is referred to as a 'she').
• gus_massa 12y ago
  Perhaps it’s only a Internet myth, but I remember a comment that said that in Russian the submarines swim (not the ships). I tried to google it, but I was unlucky, especially because a submarine crew decided to swim (without the submarine) in the arctic and make a video.
  • omonra 12y ago
    I guess professionals will still say say that submarine 'goes' so it's more correct. But both are used - google results are 25% higher for 'goes' vs 'swims'.
  • Turing_Machine 12y ago
    In Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin novels (set in the Age of Sail), the characters often refer to ships and boats as "swimming" (e.g., the ship's carpenter saying "she'll swim" after repairing one of the boats). While that's not a primary source, O'Brian is generally conceded to have done painstaking research to make his novels as authentic as possible.