Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Thu, 07 Sep 2000 19:53:07 -0400, Jesse Hellman <palio@miata.net> wrote: >Paul, Corvettes and Vipers may be male, but Ferraris are female, as >witness TestarossA not TestarossO. The horse rampant on the Ferrari >scudo, on the other hand, is the CavallinO. > >Jesse Not to pick nits (since I don't actually know Italian) but doesn't "rossa" modify "testa", and as such the genders of the words have to agree? Or can "testa" meaning "head" assume either gender depending on the sex of the owner of the head, as in "testarossa" being a readheaded woman and "testarosso" being a redheaded man? And anyone who thinks a Testarossa is a feminine car must be thinking of the 1957 version. Now that car was one hot mama ;-) Paul