Viking Bastard
Adventurer
I don't own a car currently, but I used to own a brown-orange Kia I called variously Kíja (slight pronunciation change so it sounded like a normal Icelandic female name) or The Brown Thunder.
Before that I owned a small Opel I always called Druslan ("drusla" is a term used for piece of junk cars, among other things) because it was one.
As a kid my family had a red Lada with one white door, which was never referred to as anything but Skjalda, which is a common name for a cow with large spots.
Later we had a Dodge Neon which we called The Yankee, because it was so overwhelmingly american compared to the Lada.
And even later we got a large Opel station wagon which we called Drekinn because driving it felt like you were driving a tank (Drekinn strictly means "the dragon", but tanks are called skriðdreki or "crawling dragon" in Icelandic).
Toaster and washing machines, no. PCs? Hell yeah, people do. And their phones too.
My iPhone is named DARKSEID (although I tend to just refer to it as "my phone" more often than not) and my iPad is GALACTUS (and I do refer to it as such). My mini is The Machine. My wife refers to her computer as Kitty, but never named her phone.
We name earthquakes. Not with people names, granted, but names nonetheless. For some reason we don't do this with eruptions or avalanches, though. *shrug*
Before that I owned a small Opel I always called Druslan ("drusla" is a term used for piece of junk cars, among other things) because it was one.
As a kid my family had a red Lada with one white door, which was never referred to as anything but Skjalda, which is a common name for a cow with large spots.
Later we had a Dodge Neon which we called The Yankee, because it was so overwhelmingly american compared to the Lada.
And even later we got a large Opel station wagon which we called Drekinn because driving it felt like you were driving a tank (Drekinn strictly means "the dragon", but tanks are called skriðdreki or "crawling dragon" in Icelandic).
Toaster and washing machines, no. PCs? Hell yeah, people do. And their phones too.
My iPhone is named DARKSEID (although I tend to just refer to it as "my phone" more often than not) and my iPad is GALACTUS (and I do refer to it as such). My mini is The Machine. My wife refers to her computer as Kitty, but never named her phone.
We name earthquakes. Not with people names, granted, but names nonetheless. For some reason we don't do this with eruptions or avalanches, though. *shrug*
