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stop referring to tanks as "he".

Дата: 05.10.2018 15:18:50
View PostWintermute_1, on 05 October 2018 - 11:26 AM, said: "Grammatical gender is found in many Indo-European languages (including Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian, and German — but not Persian or English, for example)"    I expect the use of 'he' comes from people in countries that use 'gender nouns' who don't have a perfect understanding of English as opposed to British people themselves.    

vuque:   Just checked with some of my colleagues and they confirmed in their languages tank's gender is male, so this might be the case here.

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