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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