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hungerdunger wrote: Wed Jul 21, 2021 3:15 pm I haven't named the car itself, but I DO have a name for the "Hello ID" lady.

Unfortunately I don't think this forum is a suitable place to mention it!
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Please help me understand why people call inanimate objects personal names as I really do not understand! A car is a car it will be the "the car" or the "effin car" if it is not working! I can understand puggy as that is shorter and easier to say peugeot (partner has a puggy)
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slef2003 wrote: Mon Sep 06, 2021 11:03 am Please help me understand why people call inanimate objects personal names as I really do not understand! A car is a car it will be the "the car" or the "effin car" if it is not working! I can understand puggy as that is shorter and easier to say peugeot (partner has a puggy)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropomorphism

It's human nature.
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slef2003 wrote: Mon Sep 06, 2021 11:03 am Please help me understand why people call inanimate objects personal names as I really do not understand! A car is a car it will be the "the car" or the "effin car" if it is not working! I can understand puggy as that is shorter and easier to say peugeot (partner has a puggy)

Our current car is "That Rattly Creaky Piece of S**t, I Told You We Shouldn't Buy It". I'm not sure if that's anthropomorphised, or simply proving your point 😆
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slef2003 wrote: Mon Sep 06, 2021 11:03 am Please help me understand why people call inanimate objects personal names as I really do not understand! A car is a car it will be the "the car" or the "effin car" if it is not working! I can understand puggy as that is shorter and easier to say peugeot (partner has a puggy)
Pug is shorter than Puggy.

I don't understand why people would give affectionate names to their car either. Did you ever see the Louis Theroux program about "car lovers" in America? There were people literally having a fluid exchanging relationship with theirs and other people's cars.
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monkeyhanger wrote: Mon Sep 06, 2021 12:02 pm
slef2003 wrote: Mon Sep 06, 2021 11:03 am Please help me understand why people call inanimate objects personal names as I really do not understand! A car is a car it will be the "the car" or the "effin car" if it is not working! I can understand puggy as that is shorter and easier to say peugeot (partner has a puggy)
Pug is shorter than Puggy.

I don't understand why people would give affectionate names to their car either. Did you ever see the Louis Theroux program about "car lovers" in America? There were people literally having a fluid exchanging relationship with theirs and other people's cars.

Americans though :roll:
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It's Glacier White, so "Raymond" as in Raymond Blanc
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It’s going to be called “Trabbie”.

As in “I’ll take the the Trabbie today, if you’re not using it”
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Mine is the grey one because the other car is blue 🙂
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I haven’t named ours but I do have a name for the VW stealer.
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A friend of my daughter (9) went into the ID.3 for the first time last week and saw the blue light doing its thing, came out amazed saying "This car has a blue light that flashes when you open the door - it is literally from the future."

Our ID.3 is now referred to as 'The car from the future'

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We have called ours Ida as it was the only German female name by husband liked. Our VW camper is Otto as he’s also German and left hand drive.
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