catawampuscat (August 3rd, 2021), mr giggles (August 6th, 2021)
Quick search on the internet shows that countries can be referred to by feminine or neutral pronouns:Thailand loses out on a lot of people because she doesn't have a suitable visa.
https://www.quora.com/How-do-we-know...ame-repeatedly
Yes. Done.Except we forget that the English language, which dumped most of this gender-ization process nine or ten centuries ago, still retains a special case — which, notably, to most English speakers is optional. It is held onto by traditionalists and specialists. The rule is that “she” can optionally apply to:
a ship at sea
another kind of vessel, such as a train (rarer)
a country or a continent
Again, note the “optional” nature of this oddity in the English language. If I call I ship an “it,” few people are going to conclude I don’t speak correct English. However, if I’m talking to an “old salt” or someone who’s spent their life in he Navy or around boats, then yeah, they actually will care and they will correct me.
There we go again (Hitler/Gitler). I have been touch-typing for 22 years, and (not at the same time) could touch-type in Dvorak, QUERTY, Cyrillic and Thai, and am dabbling with DaYi graphic input for Chinese, but it is unfathomable to me how you can confuse l and d.