Larry’s Pretty Good Journal

Questions worthy of me? (blinks) Well, yes, such speculations are indeed saladic. The practice of naming inanimate objects generally isn't, though: while I will talk to computers, cars and other objects when they need coaxing or cursing, the key characteristic for me seems to be whether the object *resembles* an animate creature. I named the toy zebra I bought in South Africa, for example, even though he's neither mobile nor complex (note also the assignment of gender, which I don't do to my car or computer).