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Terr_last Monday at 6:59 PM1 replyview on HN

Does that mean hundreds of years of English-speakers referring to sailing ship as "she" were all part of a conspiracy to hide that ships have jiggly bits? :p


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pezezinlast Tuesday at 11:40 AM

Wait until you find gendered languages (like most languages in Europe) and realize that grammatical gender usually doesn't have anything to do with biological sex :P