Personification

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

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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Bonnie Granat
www.granatedit.com
Technical Editing and Writing




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