third eye
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oh So an Indian DIG Chief of staff for commander Coast Guards, high ranking official use words like Biryani in a highly official statement? what a slangy language Indian high ranking positions use.
Above all I also have Objection over 'Genderization' of the "Terror Boat" by BK Loshali so Indian Express should ask him to apologize to all females, address the mistake and correct the sentence. Or BK Loshali should avoid translating Hindi into English word by word otherwise i will overkill his language skills by my newly invented words like Genderization.
and yeh am Serious @third eye @Bang Galore @Horus @Armstrong @SarthakGanguly @levina
Sailing vessels have forever been referred to in the female gender. No offense meant . Out at sea left at the mercy of elements & just the wind to sail a ship it must have something to do with the sane of safety a mariner felt with his mother .
Further , it was also to do with the love a sailor has with his ship & how he respects & looks after it.
In lighter vein :"Old sailors used to answer this with a sexist joke: "Like a woman, a ship is unpredictable."
A more likely suggestion relates to the idea of goddesses and mother figures playing a protective role in looking after a ship and crew. Linked to this is the common practice of giving ships female figureheads and names, often after deities or members of a shipowner's family. Christopher Columbus famously crossed the Atlantic in a ship called La Santa Maria, named after the Virgin Mary."