Talk:Going Merry

message: The Article on The Merry refers to it as "She" whenver it calls her by a pronoun.  When, in fact the Klaubuterman of the Merry is a He.  This is shown when he speaks both in Skypiea and During the Merry's Final words to the crew. when he Refers to himself, he uses the Japanese word "Boku" which is the Male Version of the word for "I" or "me".  if Merry were a Female, he would be using "Watashi" or "Atashi".  I believe the Wiki page should be changed to reflect this
:It's not a bad idea... though I'm not completely for it. The standard practice when referring to sailing ships is to treat them as female (don't ask me why); this is obviously not the best choice, now that the ship itself is personified as male. However, I'm not sure I'm in favor of treating it consistently as male, either. Maybe we can just treat the ship as "it" unless we're talking about the things it's done of its own volition? --Julian Grybowski 14:02, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm against calling the ship by the male gender... Calling a ship a "he" sounds so improper considering we're westerners here and not Japanese (speak up if otherwise) and our audience are likewise.  However, I'd rather see us use "Merry" (the characters do) as oppose to "it".  "It" seems disattached considering the ships value to the crew.  Angel Emfrbl 20:22, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

text: As was said above, ships are never referred to using the male pronoun.  This has applied to all ships, regardless if they were obviously named after males, e.g. U.S.S. Ronald Reagan.  --BrokenSphere 22:16, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Request to Change "She" to "He"

message: Added Hina to the ship damage, i dont remember any more remarcable damage... well, yes, when they get out of the misty rainbow...
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-- Julian Grybowski 22:09, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Damage to the Ship

message: Probably, Iceburg will give back the Going Merry repaired to the straw hats when they come back from ennies lobby
Then that will ruin the entire mood set by Luffy and Ussop. But, i have no idea how they are going to do it. The only way they can actually keep Going Merry is by completely dismantling her and rebuilding her. --Guille2015 22:05, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The ship

message: The following was posted by a user on the "Merry Go" discussion page...Lordshmeckie 17:59, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Addition: Going Merry has been known as Going Merry for 9+ years, 400+ chapters, and 200+ episodes by Japanese and English speaking Fans alike. Merry Go is only a recent change. It is not a very common one and is very unpopular. People think of merry-go-rounds when it is uttered and not the ship. It has been made by a company who have lost their minds and chose not follow the author's original style of naming conventions.CalicoD.Sparrow 13:27, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Gegiford

message: I'm gonna see if I can find a picture for us... We have one of the Real Life ship, but not one from the anime.  Suprises me.  Angel Emfrbl 21:50, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Missing picture

message: There's a distinct lack of nautical terminology used to describe the ship and its various parts, e.g. on a ship the kitchen is the galley, rooms are cabins, etc.  I'm going to go through the article and start replacing regular terms with nautical terms where I know what the equivalents are with wiki links where applicable, but I'm don't claim to be a mariner by any means.  --BrokenSphere 22:19, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Speaking of which, who wrote "he" instead of "her".  I corrected one, but apparently (since I didn't read the rest of the article) there were others.  In english terms a ship is "female", I know you can argue otherwise and say the Japanese doesn't say that or... Whatever.  But the Japanese "Merry" when talking about the ship mostly.  Angel Emfrbl 22:52, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Lack of nautical terminology used