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Re: [POLL] What pronoun do you use for your Amiga? Posted on 18-Jan-2020 17:41:01
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What pronoun do you use for your Amiga? |
I use the pronoun "it" for both my systems. However, they each have a name, or more precisely, a hostname.
As I recall, my ancient Commodore A2000HD was simply called "amiga". My MicroA1 is called "minuet" (because it lives in an Antec Minuet case).
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Re: [POLL] What pronoun do you use for your Amiga? Posted on 18-Jan-2020 17:56:36
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Amiga is absolutely female, no doubt at all. _________________ Pegasos II G4@1GHz 2GB Radeon 9250 256MB AmigaOS4.1 fe - MorphOS - Debian 9 Jessie |
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Re: [POLL] What pronoun do you use for your Amiga? Posted on 19-Jan-2020 11:26:54
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Re: [POLL] What pronoun do you use for your Amiga? Posted on 20-Jan-2020 9:12:25
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Not sure from your Avatar if you are trolling or not... _________________ "When the Amiga came out, everyone [at Apple] was scared as hell." (J.L. Gassée, former CEO of Apple France and chief of devs of Mac II-fx, interviewed by Amazing Computing, Nov 1996). |
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Re: [POLL] What pronoun do you use for your Amiga? Posted on 21-Jan-2020 0:32:26
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In this case we're implying "The Amiga 500 COMPUTER (m) was produced in 1987", so we have to use the male gender |
But isn't this a recursive explanation. How do we know that "computer", which is an English word, is actually male.?
Elaboratore?
Having said that, I think Amiga was meant to be female, like the OCS Agnus, Denise, Paula.
In colloquial English in not uncommon to address to cars, boats, even houses as she. So why not a computer?
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Re: [POLL] What pronoun do you use for your Amiga? Posted on 21-Jan-2020 9:20:27
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In colloquial English in not uncommon to address to cars, boats, even houses as she. So why not a computer? |
Because in 2020 it's stupid and hopelessly sexist.
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Re: [POLL] What pronoun do you use for your Amiga? Posted on 21-Jan-2020 9:39:10
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Trixie wrote: @Nonefornow
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In colloquial English in not uncommon to address to cars, boats, even houses as she. So why not a computer? |
Because in 2020 it's stupid and hopelessly sexist.
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Friend Trixie, would you care to explain me how exactly is it sexist?
Toward who? Is it offensive to women to address a computer as a female? Because...? Is it offensive to the Amiga because it could perceive itself as a male rather than female?
Ah, friend Trixie, what a majestically frail and retarded society we have created. Asking such questions in first place, and then even answering them so solemnly rather than ridiculing them.
Nanny, nanny state.
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Re: [POLL] What pronoun do you use for your Amiga? Posted on 21-Jan-2020 17:22:48
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Note2: as french langage is latin too, are french people latinos too ? |
I, myself, am genuine Latin--my Grandfather was a pure (well...) Sicillian, and he married a woman who was half Irish and half Tuscan...but I neever call myself 'Latino', since, here in the USA, everyone thinks of the term only meaning those whose ancestors lived in one or more of Spain's American colonies. That's right, they usually, unconsiously, exclude the Brazilians, and current and former French colonies....?!
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Re: [POLL] What pronoun do you use for your Amiga? Posted on 21-Jan-2020 17:41:52
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| Oh, and in answer to the original question, I usually call it @#$%^&*!! But it is still bi--it works just as hard to make the ladies happy as it does the men....
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