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RE: Ships are \\\\\\\"She\\\\\\\"
Posted by: Jon Balson ()
Date: May 03, 2001 10:20AM

<HTML>By the way, usually a ship (no matter the type) is referred to in German as \"she\" (sie, or with the definite article, die) as we do in English. I think Yingvi is on the right track. It was out of respect for Reichskanzler Bismarck (or, maybe, just the fact that the namesake of the battleship was a male) that the commander consistently referred to the vessel with a male pronoun (er) and definite article (der).</HTML>

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Un earthed photos...! chris lee 05/02/2001 06:09AM
RE: Un earthed photos...! Yves D 05/02/2001 09:20AM
RE: Un earthed photos...! Blake Mitchell 05/02/2001 09:31AM
RE: Un earthed photos...! Yngvi 05/02/2001 12:14PM
RE: Ships are \&quot;She\&quot; MPC 05/02/2001 08:48PM
RE: Ships are \\\&quot;She\\\&quot; Yngvi 05/02/2001 09:29PM
RE: Ships are \\\\\\\&quot;She\\\\\\\&quot; Jon Balson 05/03/2001 10:20AM
RE: Ships are \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\&quot;She\\\\\\\\\\\\ Rainer Bruns 05/03/2001 11:00AM
RE: Ships are \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\&quot the he-she thing 05/03/2001 01:32PM
RE: Ships are - sexing of! John Griffiths 05/03/2001 03:40PM
RE: Ships are - sexing of! steve 05/03/2001 04:27PM
RE: Ships are - sexing of! John Griffiths 05/03/2001 04:43PM
RE: Ships are \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ J.T. McDaniel 05/03/2001 05:56PM
RE: Ships are \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Fin Bonset 05/04/2001 10:38AM
RE: but have they met ? Hi Chris 05/02/2001 08:59PM
RE: but have they met ? MPC 05/02/2001 09:01PM
RE: Meeting arranged Chris Lee 05/03/2001 06:17AM


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