anthropomorphise

• “And understandable: humans anthropomorphise everything, especially other creatures.”

  Link love: language (5)

• “Now, anthropomorphise that shrug, and imagine it dies, but not an exciting death maybe it got caught in a dehumidifier or something.”

  The Guardian: This week's new singles

• “They are common, unspectacular and difficult to cutely anthropomorphise.”

  The Guardian: Watch this

• “Almost half of Japanese would anthropomorphise their robots”

  Home robots wanted by most Japanese women

• “I've never heard of an operation like this being attempted in real life, but it did make me think about our tendency, as dog owners, to anthropomorphise our pets.”

  The Guardian: Another view on A Dog's Heart

• “For example, players may anthropomorphise a pet to imbue it with qualities that it doesn't have at a a simulationist level; if you can establish that they do this, then you can run tests in the light of this that you couldn't run if you had to show what it was that pets did which made them in the absence of player interpretation behave like real pets.”

  Mapping finalized

• “When you anthropomorphise any group of people to speak about them as a single person with intent, that person is nearly always schizophrenic. -- jzap”

  Happy Hour Roundup

• “Actually, emotions is one thing animals do have often the way they're expressed is different from the way the same emotion is expressed by a human being; hence - we can't emotionally read some of the stuff, that's why we often anthropomorphise animals in art, etc., it's sometimes missing in humans, though.”

  Disturbing animation against global warming « Drawn! The Illustration and Cartooning Blog

• “We all anthropomorphise to a degree, sometimes laughing at ourselves as we do it.”

  New Dog Book

• “So we spiritualise the material universe, and afterwards, by an incongruous consistency, anthropomorphise spirit.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847

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