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That's what the author chose to do. There's no right or wrong for this
situation. A robot might be named "Fred" or "Wilma" but can also be referred
to as "he", "she", or "it".
Why is this an issue, anyway?
Bill Swallow
wswallow "at" nycap "dot" rr "dot" com
::: -----Original Message-----
::: > 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"?
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