Talk:Russian frigate Admiral Gorshkov

Latest comment: 4 years ago by Moryak in topic Pronoun usage vis a vis ships

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This page is a bad duplicate of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiral_Sergei_Gorshkov_class_frigate —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.82.206.26 (talk) 12:36, 22 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

Agreed. Can someone delete it? There's no point to its existence. Fahrenheit666 (talk) 17:20, 19 November 2019 (UTC)Reply

Pronoun usage vis a vis ships edit

The sometimes contentious squabble regarding the usage of "it" or "she" in reference to ships is problematic when addressing Russian ships. In Russian usage all references to warships use the masculine pronoun, usually best translated as "it". Non-warships are normally referred as vessels vice ships and use the neuter pronoun. The use of the feminine pronoun "she" appears to stem from British usage and has carried over into American usage. If anyone uses a Russian reference and engages in translation the result will always be "it" rather than "she".Moryak (talk) 18:07, 21 April 2020 (UTC)Reply