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[POLL] What pronoun do you use for your Amiga? Posted on 15-Jan-2020 0:18:45
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| While most users would agree that the proper pronoun to use for the Amiga is "it", others argue that gender ("he", "she") or non-binary/agender ("they") pronouns should be used. In this AmigaWorld.net Special Poll, you are kindly asked to tell the world how you address your computer. _________________ That'll Put Marzipan In Your Pie Plate, Bingo 💻 Pro-Amiga, 🌍 Pro-Globalism, 🍅 Pro-Vegan, 🛦 Pro-NATO & 🇪🇺 Pro-Joint EU Defense Intervention Initiative |
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Re: [POLL] What pronoun do you use for your Amiga? Posted on 15-Jan-2020 0:27:17
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Mines a beautiful attack helicopter and if you disagree then you are a bigot and should check your vehicular privilege. |
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Re: [POLL] What pronoun do you use for your Amiga? Posted on 15-Jan-2020 0:40:26
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| I sit royally in the quiet of my mansion, the warm light of an antique lamp painting a dance of gentle shadows on the exquisite upholstery of my room, as I ask myself:
what kind of frail, hollow shell of despair and emptiness must be someone's life, to get him reach for a computer keyboard to CREATE A POLL ASKING WHAT PRONOUN OTHERS USE FOR THEIR COMPUTING DEVICE? _________________ I HAVE ABS OF STEEL -- CAN YOU SEE ME? CAN YOU HEAR ME? OK FOR WORK |
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Re: [POLL] What pronoun do you use for your Amiga? Posted on 15-Jan-2020 5:48:13
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I determineer that to me "mine" is too explosive, so I use "my" as a pronoun. |
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Re: [POLL] What pronoun do you use for your Amiga? Posted on 15-Jan-2020 7:31:24
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To quote singer Boy George “disclosing one’s pronouns is a form of attention seeking, so leave your pronouns at the door”. 😉
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Re: [POLL] What pronoun do you use for your Amiga? Posted on 15-Jan-2020 7:44:29
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Wenn writing in German I'm using a male article and the fitting pronoun.
When writing in English I'm using the pronoum 'it' ... |
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Re: [POLL] What pronoun do you use for your Amiga? Posted on 15-Jan-2020 8:48:05
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| The Czech language has grammatical (rather than natural) gender, so an Amiga would be a "she" in Czech. In English, I strictly use "it".
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Re: [POLL] What pronoun do you use for your Amiga? Posted on 15-Jan-2020 10:50:23
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It depends on which machine you mean. Some of my Amigas are men, some are women and two of them are still children. Their sex is determined at build time and a name is chosen to suit.
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Re: [POLL] What pronoun do you use for your Amiga? Posted on 15-Jan-2020 16:20:14
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| @Petah El chisme. |
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Re: [POLL] What pronoun do you use for your Amiga? Posted on 15-Jan-2020 17:33:31
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I hate to admit agreeing with you... I seldom (if ever) do..
But, I am right there with you with that assessment! LOL
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Re: [POLL] What pronoun do you use for your Amiga? Posted on 15-Jan-2020 18:28:50
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Can't people have a little fun or is that not allowed in your world?! Life is pointless, the universe will eventually die and everything we have done and will do is for naught. All we can do is be good to other people (or just ignore them) and have a little fun in the limited number of years we have on this planet. Sheesh... Not everything has to be serious or even have a point. |
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Re: [POLL] What pronoun do you use for your Amiga? Posted on 15-Jan-2020 18:36:47
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I'm sitting in my bedroom with my flat-pack dresser wondering the same thing.
Anyway, the answer is "it" or "she". On the one hand, "it" because it's an inanimate object, on the other hand, "she" because she's an Amiga, not an Amigo.
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Re: [POLL] What pronoun do you use for your Amiga? Posted on 15-Jan-2020 19:36:14
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Despite the word being Portuguese and in Portuguese Amiga is female, one uses it as "um amiga" as in one commodore amiga _________________ Indigo 3D Lounge, my second home. The Illusion of Choice | Am*ga |
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Re: [POLL] What pronoun do you use for your Amiga? Posted on 15-Jan-2020 19:52:33
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| Words have a gender in french language as others latin langages so Amiga mean "amie" so a female friend. Buuut it is an "ordinateur" (=computer) so male So my Amiga is a "he" Note: game consoles are females but Amiga is a computer so male ==> Amiga is not a console Note2: as french langage is latin too, are french people latinos too ?
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Re: [POLL] What pronoun do you use for your Amiga? Posted on 16-Jan-2020 8:07:13
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I sit royally in the quiet of my mansion, the warm light of an antique lamp painting a dance of gentle shadows on the exquisite upholstery of my room, as I ask myself:
what kind of frail, hollow shell of despair and emptiness must be someone's life, to get him reach for a computer keyboard to CREATE A POLL ASKING WHAT PRONOUN OTHERS USE FOR THEIR COMPUTING DEVICE? |
I admit I laughed a lot while reading this. :D
Anyway, in Italy this is a real issue, since we haven't a neutral gender, so pronouns and articles must follow names one. Here 'Amiga' absolutely sounds as a female word, but since it is a "computer line" rather than a specific product, we have to choose every time its gender, depending on the context we're using the word. For instance:
1. "L'Amiga non è morta nel 1994" (Amiga (f) didn't die in 1994)
Here the word Amiga is used to express the whole computer line. So, in reality, is like we're saying "La linea di computer Amiga non è morta nel 1994" (Amiga computer line (f) didn't die...). A female gender is required. But:
2. "L'Amiga 500 è uscito nel 1987" (Amiga 500 (m) was produced in 1987)
In this case we're implying "The Amiga 500 COMPUTER (m) was produced in 1987", so we have to use the male gender, for two reasons: the implied male "computer" word AND the number "500", which in Italian sounds as a male word. And there's even another little complication, here. Even "500" as an abstract word can have different gender (implied word is in CAPITAL letters):
2b. "La 500 è scomoda" ("The FIAT 500 is a unpleasant CAR") - female gender 2c. "Il '500 è stato un gran secolo" ("YEAR 1500 has been a great century") - male gender
Matching gender between words, articles and pronouns is very difficult for foreign people learning italian. |
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Re: [POLL] What pronoun do you use for your Amiga? Posted on 16-Jan-2020 9:11:36
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Whilst the word Amiga in Portuguese Is feminine like it it is in Spanish. In Spanish at least if you are referring to the machine itself in terms of the Commodore Amiga 1200 then it turns masculine. For example el Commodore Amiga 500. Ordenador the Spanish word for computer is also masculine 😉 e.g. el ordenador.
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Re: [POLL] What pronoun do you use for your Amiga? Posted on 16-Jan-2020 9:35:21
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Matching gender between words, articles and pronouns is very difficult for foreign people learning italian. |
I think it's not, the role is fairly simple (safe for the exceptions) a singular ending in "e" or "o" is masculine "a" is feminine.
What is difficult for a foreigner to cope with is the Italian laziness -or elegance I'd prefer- to omit words in a phrase and taking them for granted in the context. Not sure this trait is advantageous in politics tho..
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Re: [POLL] What pronoun do you use for your Amiga? Posted on 16-Jan-2020 10:36:36
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smartroad wrote: @MEGA_RJ_MICAL
Can't people have a little fun or is that not allowed in your world?! Life is pointless |
Correct, that is not allowed in my world.
Speaking of "my", there's a "my" missing from your above paragraph. Finding where, is an exercise left to the reader.
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Re: [POLL] What pronoun do you use for your Amiga? Posted on 16-Jan-2020 20:46:03
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Re: [POLL] What pronoun do you use for your Amiga? Posted on 17-Jan-2020 10:03:23
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| MEGA_RJ_MICAL wrote: Quote:
smartroad wrote: @MEGA_RJ_MICAL
Can't people have a little fun or is that not allowed in your world?! Life is pointless |
Correct, that is not allowed in my world.
Speaking of "my", there's a "my" missing from your above paragraph. Finding where, is an exercise left to the reader.
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All the "my" ar MINE!
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