Rovers - He Or She? |
Rovers - He Or She? |
Jun 21 2005, 07:41 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 877 Joined: 7-March 05 From: Switzerland Member No.: 186 |
I'm still confused about the gender of Spirit and Oppy! What the consent about? If Spirit female (so I think) then make it sense to keep quiet about her age and make she younger
No kidding! I would like to know which personal pronoun (she, her or he, his etc.) I have to use by Spirit's and Oppy's gender definitely? -------------------- |
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Jun 21 2005, 07:43 AM
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Chief Assistant Group: Admin Posts: 1409 Joined: 5-January 05 From: Ierapetra, Greece Member No.: 136 |
Are they not both gals?
Nico -------------------- photographer, space imagery enthusiast, proud father and partner, and geek.
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Jun 21 2005, 07:56 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
Technically, of course, they're asexual, and the proper pronoun would be "it." But these rovers really grow on you, and it's natural to anthropomorphize them. Since the English and American tradition is to give ships a female gender, I think the feminine form is more appropriate.
Besides, there used to be a great Live Journal set in which someone posted to a blog as Spirit, followed by someone else who created a blog ID as Oppy. They both took on female personalities, and developed a bit of a following. I haven't seen them post anything new lately, but in the early days, it was fun -- Oppy lording it over her big sister by finding evidence of water first, nyah, nyah! And Spirit writing cold, depressing poetry and falling into a deep depression after only 16 sols, refusing to talk to anyone for just *days*... -the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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