Re: Personification
An author has gone to the trouble of naming his robots in a computer
science textbook, but proceeds to talk about them individually as
"it."
Is this the way it's done?
Why bother personifying them with human names if one's going to refer
to an individual robot as an "it"?
Assigning human names doesn't necessarily personify a thing. For example, my local univerity names its servers after famous composers, but that doesn't mean they are personified. If I want to log into strauss, I just log into it, not him.
Perhaps your author's use of 'it' is meant to indicate that the robots are NOT personified despite the human names?
Anyway, there are lots of competing computer science textbooks out there... your author needs to find some way to liven things up, to differentiate the book. I'd say go for the human names and 'it.'
Mike O.
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