Endowing inanimate objects with human qualities
Incidence
A Polish monitor of television language took issue with a car manufacturer's description of its vehicle as "intelligent with a strong personality". That amounted to endowing an inanimate object with human qualities and was reprehensible in the interests of the dignity of the mother tongue.
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SDG
Metadata
Database
World problems
Type
(F) Fuzzy exceptional problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
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Yet to rate
Language
English
1A4N
J4444
DOCID
12044440
D7NID
147934
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Last update
Dec 3, 2024