Does your laptop have a name? Your TV? Your immersion blender? The practice is not uncommon (one Apartment Therapy staffer named their TV Layla, “‘cause she was expensive, high-maintenance, & feisty”), but have you ever wondered why you do it? The Cut recently looked at the impulses behind assigning names—and occasionally personalities—to inanimate objects.
from http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/why-we-name-our-objects-252173
from waaaay over here —> Why We Name Our Objects
from Sofia Consola
via Why We Name Our Objects
