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llamabeast said:
[I should explain that one of my old housemates, who was Dutch, would often describe inanimate objects as he or she - deliberately, I should say - and it was sometimes hilarious. So now I sometimes do the same myself.]
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It's in the language. Only in English are all inanimate objects referred to as "it". In German, most things are masculine, but can be anything: the spoon is a "he", the fork is a "she", the knife is an "it". In french, most things are feminine, I think.