Someone explain this to me, please?

[bamabiker]

Lucille is B. B. Kings guitars name. How is u gona get that in there?

You need to watch Cool Hand Luke and see what Dragline says about the girl washing the car.
One of my favorite movies.

 

[RobertJ.]

Why do people refer to their guns as "toys"? I don't get that one either.

People also refer to boats, motorcycles, and cars as "toys". None of those, along with firearms, should be handled irresponsibly.

It's pretty simple. If it's a "want", and not a "need", then it's a toy.

And as far as women's names for guns are concerned, I've only had one with a woman's name: Erma Luger. She didn't do right by me, and she was traded for a more tried and true model, which happened to have the names of two men.

 

[Rex Goliath]

Aahh, linguistics. Occidental (western) and Oriental (eastern) root words for nouns; people, places & things.

As for the occidental; at one time, Rome ruled the world. The language remnants of their empire can be found in English.

Nouns in Latin have a gender assigned to them. They will always be masculine, feminine or neuter. You will never change a noun's gender. Adjectives change their endings to match the gender of the noun. To form the root of a noun before adding the necessary ending, always look to the genitive form.

I believe (and welcome constructive criticism) that the Romance languages too employ noun gender.

American spoken english is... a bit lazy... loaded with dialects, notwithstanding an infusion of Yiddish, French, Germanic, Nordic and Spanish.
Adios
I really don't know, and submarines, (PT) patrol torpedo are "boats" and not ships... all are vessels, but so is a vase and a bowl. A Kiwi is a slang nationality, a (wingless) bird, a fruit and a shoe polish.




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[shouldazagged]

Unfortunately, and somewhat surprisingly, in French "merde" is a feminine noun.

As for spoken English being "a bit lazy", as far as I know nearly all languages are in spoken form. Regional dialects, shortcuts like elision, weird idioms, etc.

Seems to be human nature.

 

[Alpo]

As I understand it, boats can be put aboard ships. That's why subs and PTs are boats. Size.

 

[Lost Lake]

my wife once said she was jealous of my 4-wheeler and asked why i spent so much time with it...

i took her to the garage, opened the door, turned the key on the quad, pushed the start button, took off down the driveway and then back in to the garage...then i twisted my wife's left "knob" poked her right "button" and asked if she was ready to go to the bedroom. of course she said "no", to which i replied she(nodding to the quad) never says no...

by the way, i never refer to anything as she, except for that one time to make a point...and i was in the doghouse for a few days over it...

My oh my you are a charmer!!!
The honeymoon isn't over yet is it?

 

[oberon]

I refer to firearms as this 'thing' or that 'thing' or thoise 'things'.
To me, they exhibit no gender characteistics. They are 'its'.
If God wanted them to have gender, he would have included primary and secondary sex features in the form of genitals and breasts or testes.
None of my stuff ever had any of that.

 

[walkin jack]

I don't assign gender to any of my guns or name them. But I can see that if I did my little KelTec P-32 might be a she. How ever my N-frame .44 special and my Ruger Blackhawk .357mag, and 3 of my Glocks, the 21, the 36, and the 23 would definitely have to be boy guns.