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pronouns for inanimate objects
Recently I watched the movie "It"(i watched in russian). And now i have a question about scene when Bill making a papper boat for his brother. He told that this boat "she". I find this part in the book. Here :
I wish you could come," George said. He really did. Bill sometimes got bossy after awhile, but he always had the coolest ideas and he hardly ever hit. "It's your boat, really.
"She," Bill said. "You call boats sh-she."
"She, then.
Yes, I know that you can call your cats, dogs, birds etc "she"/"he". (maybe your car if you love it so much :))
But why Bill said it about toy which he done just now?
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can somebody explaine me?
I watched 7 season 11 episode The Walking Dead , and in the ending was the dialog between two characters (Euegene and Dwight)one of them said phrase I don't really understand: "Regarding me clamping down" into Russian this phrase was translated like "spy on me?" Is it right? I thought maybe translators just substitute it for more appropriate sentense and "Regarding me clamping down" it' idiom or something?
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question
I want to ask, when it's okay to say about man "pretty"? becаuse in Russia teachers very often tought us that word about womеn and girls, and if you wanna say about men you have to use words like "handsome" or "attractive". But on Youtube videos I heard when someone sad "he's pretty"
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about my bad English
Hi! My name is Julia. I have been learning English by myself, cаuse i love this language, but at school i learned French ( however i don't speak French at all X)) . So, generally i just listen to music, watching movies and TV show in original,trying to read articals sometimes. My English not good, but I have biggest problem with speaking cause i scare , i'm very nervous and always thingk "OMG i'll tell something wrong". Once, i was in St.Petersburg (there a lot of foreigner)and one woman just ask me "where is bookstore?"... that was awfull, I totally forget all words and start gesticulate and speak Russian. that was in the last year, but sometimes i remember that instance and feel so shame.
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