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Aezeal · #1 March 10th, 2008, 09:00 PM

To me in my game it seems down..

the timer says it hasn't updated in some hours, I get no reply on my mail, I figure my turn is not accepted.

Does this happen often?
If it works again will I have staled?

llamabeast · #2 March 10th, 2008, 09:08 PM

Seems like he's fallen asleep. I'll go give him a poke.

llamabeast · #3 March 10th, 2008, 09:18 PM

Okay, turns out he was off. I remember now that one of my housemates said a fuse had blown earlier in the day, so I guess that's what did it. I've turned him back on now.

[I should explain that one of my old housemates, who was Dutch, would often describe inanimate objects as he or she - deliberately, I should say - and it was sometimes hilarious. So now I sometimes do the same myself.]

lch · #4 March 10th, 2008, 11:07 PM

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llamabeast said:
[I should explain that one of my old housemates, who was Dutch, would often describe inanimate objects as he or she - deliberately, I should say - and it was sometimes hilarious. So now I sometimes do the same myself.]

It's in the language. Only in English are all inanimate objects referred to as "it". In German, most things are masculine, but can be anything: the spoon is a "he", the fork is a "she", the knife is an "it". In french, most things are feminine, I think.

Aezeal · #5 March 11th, 2008, 03:04 AM

We dutch are so funny

LDiCesare · #6 March 11th, 2008, 05:34 AM

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lch said:In french, most things are feminine, I think.

It's more about half masculine, half feminine. But there is no neutral gender in French.

Torin · #7 March 11th, 2008, 08:54 AM

About half and half in spanish too.

kasnavada · #8 March 11th, 2008, 09:01 AM

English is an odd language, not the other ones. It refers to inanimate objects without gender

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Kristoffer O · #9 March 11th, 2008, 01:45 PM

There are two forms of 'it' in swedish.

A computer is a 'den'.
A program is a 'det'.

No one can explain the difference (not me anyway), but everyone knows the right one to use. Foreigners never know, and can easily be ridiculed

Tuidjy · #10 March 11th, 2008, 05:59 PM

Bulgarian has the three genders (masculine/feminine/neuter) but not all inanimate
objects are neuter. There is no hard and fast rule. A computer is a 'he', a
calculator a 'she', and an abacus an 'it'. Frankly, I think English's way
is better. At least it makes sense, and you can express that an object is
special in some way by assigning a gender to it, as sailors did with ships.