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Re: Metrical Stress, Feet, Syllables, Genders, Email Servers etc.

From:Andreas Johansson <andjo@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 10, 2004, 9:50
Quoting Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>:

> *I have a friend whose named her computer Daisy, and will sometimes use > "she", but I think that she intends to sound cute by using that. :-)
In my family, we name our computers after Dark/Viking Age kings and princes. I'm writing this on "Ingjald", named after a legendary king who supposedly unified central Sweden by inviting his fellow kinglets to a feast, and once they were suitably drunk sneaked out and had the hall burned to the ground. Which earned him the nickname _Illråde_, meaning something like "evil counsel" (cf Aethelred Unready, corrupted from _unred_ "bad counsel"). Despite this, we of course don't refer to them with masculine pronouns, but by the non-human n-gender _den_. Andreas