Amusing Names For Gear.

[nfe]

Cannae just means Can't. Internet videos buffer.

[badgermark]

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I'm the very face of astonishment 

I still have no idea what "cannae get unless they buffer" means.

Bloody southern pansies.

[il˙ti]

That's pesh, ye'd freeze ye bollocks off in Canada ye nyaff!

[dave_mc]

I tend to agree.  Not so bothered about naming things - it can be just a convenient label, with no great anthropomorphic significance -  but when people call guitars "she" (or refer to their car as "the old girl") it does make me cringe.

while i agree and don't call inanimate objects "he" or "she", i wonder is it a throwback to when english had genders for nouns? I know most other european languages do (certainly romance and germanic). and english is pretty much german and norse whacked together with french and a bit of latin. and maybe a wee bit of celtic.

EDIT: yup, old english had gender for nouns. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_english#Germanic_origins

yeah, i know i suck for being interested in this kind of shite. :lol:

[nfe]

If people regularly did it with ANY inanimate object then there'd maybe be some merit in that. But they don't, it's only ever prized possessions or something they're proud to own.

[dave_mc]

yeah, of course, they might just be prats. :lol:

it's done a lot with ships, though. they always seem to be called "she". though any words for ship in either german or french i just looked up were either neuter or masculine... :lol:

going with prats, yeah. :lol:

[Philly Q]

while i agree and don't call inanimate objects "he" or "she", i wonder is it a throwback to when english had genders for nouns? I know most other european languages do (certainly romance and germanic). and english is pretty much german and norse whacked together with french and a bit of latin. and maybe a wee bit of celtic.

EDIT: yup, old english had gender for nouns. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_english#Germanic_origins

yeah, i know i suck for being interested in this kind of shiteee. :lol:

It's a good argument, Dave, but why is it always "she" not "he"?  Surely old English nouns had both genders, just like modern languages.

Lets stick with prats.  :lol:

[Mr. Air]

I tend to agree.  Not so bothered about naming things - it can be just a convenient label, with no great anthropomorphic significance -  but when people call guitars "she" (or refer to their car as "the old girl") it does make me cringe.

while i agree and don't call inanimate objects "he" or "she", i wonder is it a throwback to when english had genders for nouns? I know most other european languages do (certainly romance and germanic). and english is pretty much german and norse whacked together with french and a bit of latin. and maybe a wee bit of celtic.

EDIT: yup, old english had gender for nouns. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_english#Germanic_origins

yeah, i know i suck for being interested in this kind of shitee. :lol:

No need to think you suck, Dave. Interest in language is quite healthy in my book.  :D

[Plexi Ken]

That's pesh, ye'd freeze ye bollocks off in Canada ye nyaff!

Bollocks is a little more English (but not uncommon in Scotland), baws (balls) would be more common/traditional (at least in the West).

[Will]

If people regularly did it with ANY inanimate object then there'd maybe be some merit in that. But they don't, it's only ever prized possessions or something they're proud to own.

If people all did the same thing, life would be boring. It atleast gives you something to talk about, right??

[JDC]

If people regularly did it with ANY inanimate object then there'd maybe be some merit in that. But they don't, it's only ever prized possessions or something they're proud to own.

If people all did the same thing, life would be boring. It atleast gives you something to talk about, right??

isn't the weather good enough for you?

[choucas09]

No it's raining.

[Lukie]

What about the zvex Super Hard-On?   :D

[WezV]

screw you guys!!!   my archtop is called bertha, my epi LP is gertrude and my old 3/4 size camping classical has XcalibA carved into the headstock with a pen knife  :P    ;)

Nfe - can you video the face stabbing please, i want to know you are taking this seriously ;)

[AndyR]

Yeah we (me, Edith and Alice) wanna see the scars :lol:

Not all me geetars have names though - and Edith and Alice aren't even my favourites, but the names just appeared from somewhere and stuck.