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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for epicene
		epicene individuals/hairstyles synonyms : bisexual, hermaphrodite, hermaphroditic, androgynous; unisex, unisexual.
		epicene men synonyms : effeminate, womanish, unmanly, effete, weak.
		The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature; 1/1/2003; MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER; 42 words; Collegiate, Ladies, in Jonson's Epicene, a coterie of domineering women ‘who live from their husbands and give entertainment to all the wits and braveries [beaux] of the time’.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=epicene (842 words)

	epicene - Definitions from Dictionary.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		belonging to, or partaking of the characteristics of, both sexes: Fashions in clothing are becoming increasingly epicene.
		Belonging to or having the characteristics of both the male and the female: an epicene statue.
		epicene was Word of the Day on October 5, 2001.
	dictionary.reference.com /browse/epicene (244 words)

	Barbelith Underground > Head Shop > Genderless/Gender-neutral pronouns, "he", "she", "them" and "they", and ...
		Otherwise...I'm not sure if you mean that an epicene pronoun should not be used to describe a person who might at different times be male or female "If the passenger is too cold, ze can adjust the air heater with the control to their left", or should not be used at all.
		Which is not to say that the epicene pronoun is a logical evolution of language, only that the same objections have probably been raised to every attempt to make language more inclusive, successful or unsuccessful, wise or misguided.
		Or that an epicene pronoun is a necessity (that epicene pronoun could, of course, be "they", but see the footnotes page or much of this thread for a summary of the problems both of singular and of plural "they").
	www.barbelith.com /topic.php?id=9710&start=120 (7336 words)

	escharotic and epicene and epergne and equivoque and epicerastic
		Epicene is defined by the Collegiate as "intersexual" or "having characteristics of both sexes" or, interestingly enough, "Lacking characteristics of either sex." Huh?
		Thus a epicene noun is not one of "common gender;" it is one whose grammatical gender is fixed regardless of the actual gender of the object.
		From the 1650s, "Her head is epicene." Or, from Coleridge, "The mysterious epicene relation in which poor Miss Johnston stood to him." This could mean that she was both a sort of "father" and "mother" figure or, perhaps, a "masculine counselor" and a person who had romantic interests in him.
	www.drbilllong.com /SpellersDiary/4114302.html (1121 words)

	Epicene Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Epicene were formed in the hedonistic days of October '99 with the sole intention of becoming the first band to enter their first seven singles at no.1 in the charts.
		As there was only one gig available at the time, Epicene had to play a gig supporting some crap metal bands and their crap 14 year old Limp Bizkit followers.
		Epicene were too good for them, and they went back to drinking their cheap cider.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /richard.dixon4/bio.htm (373 words)

	Chico News and Review February 24, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The word Epicene (originally spelled Epicoene) means "sexless, possessing qualities of both genders or effeminate." Old Ben Jonson was ahead of his time in writing this play.
		Once married, Epicene turns out to speak after all, and she drives Morose crazy with not only her own chatter but also with that of her friends (John J. Adams, Nicholas Stanton and Doug Milliron), who loiter in their home.
		The women are definitely in charge here; from Epicene, who fools her husband, to Mistress Otter (played perfectly by Ben Onyx Dowdy), who bosses her husband, Thomas (played by Eric Jon Caldwell), around and picks on him mercilessly.
	www.newsreview.com /chico/Content?oid=oid:24197 (760 words)

	The Mavens' Word of the Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The word epicene, which is pronounced "EPP-uh-seen," means 'belonging to, or partaking of the characteristics of, both sexes'.
		But the main use of the word epicene is in grammar, where it means '(of a grammatical form, esp. a noun or pronoun) capable of referring to either sex'.
		Some of the solutions include an expanded use of one (a critic in 1884 offered the example "Every man and woman is the architect of one's own fortune"), an alternation between generic he and generic she, an expanded use of it ("The applicant signed its name"), and the singular use of they, which we've discussed.
	www.randomhouse.com /wotd/index.pperl?date=19980812 (612 words)

	Dictionary.com/Word of the Day Archive/epicene
		He has a clear-eyed, epicene handsomeness -- cruel, sensuous mouth; cheekbones to cut your heart on -- the sort of excessive beauty that is best appreciated in repose on a 50-foot screen.
		She smothers (almost literally at times) her weak, epicene son Vladimir, and is prepared to commit any crime to see him become Tsar, despite his reluctance.
		Epicene derives from Latin epicoenus, from Greek epikoinos, "common to," from epi-, "upon" + koinos, "common."
	dictionary.reference.com /wordoftheday/archive/2004/09/07.html (101 words)

	L#4892 (JBR Conlang - IV)
		EPICENE nouns, which refer to "persons" (male and/or female) - in some other languages this category is known as "Common gender".
		Although these categories are referred to as "genders", the semantic dividing line between them is a question of personhood, not sex (bulls are "neuter", eunuchs are "epicene"), and is entirely predictable (not, as for Spanish or German genders, largely arbitrary).
		However, there are a handful of irregular epicene nouns which behave differently, with special forms for each case.
	www.xibalba.demon.co.uk /jbr/l4892/iv.html (873 words)

	Urban Dictionary: epicene
		Epicene can be used as a description to clarify that one does not have a sexual preference because someone who is epicene does not choose their mates based on their sex.
		An epicene is not a bisexual (someone who is attracted to both sexes), instead they do not take gender into account at ALL, as they feel it is more important to have the correct personality match, rather than the correct plumbing.
		2) An epicene is simultaniously used to describe someone whom you are unable to tell the gender of.
	www.urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=epicene (265 words)

	TRINPsite: Given Names for Persons
		This means that an individual will always have an epicene name as a person, but that such an individual may also have a gender-specific name to be used in an erotic or sexual context or in the context of procreation.
		Note that an epicene or unisex name in the spoken language need not be an epicene or unisex name in the written language, and vice versa.
		They are epicene or unisex names for persons which are also gender-transcending in the original language or which happen to be both a male and a female name in that language.
	www.xs4all.nl /~ftptr025/Note/Name.htm (2879 words)

	Uncle Jazzbeau's Gallimaufrey: epicene
		The Epicene Pronouns covers the various failed attempts in English for a genderless pronominal system.
		Ben Jonson wrote a play called Epicene or The Silent Woman.
		And before any charges of political correctness come in from the grammatically grumpy regarding the mapping of grammatical gender to biological sex, they would do well to consider that there are languages with more than the traditional three grammatical genders of Latin and Greek: e.g., Bantu languages on average have around 15 genders.
	www.bisso.com /blarch/000008.html (196 words)

	Burglars, babysitters, and persons: A sociolinguistic study of generic pronoun usage in Philadelphia and Minneapolis
		Statistical analysis shows that he was seldom used for epicene referents and appeared only about half the time even for masculine-generic referents.
		In contrast to the overtly gendered pronouns, the referential nonsolidity of singular they was conducive to pronoun switching and also explained why they was preferred for generic use even when the referent was female.
		Female language-users tended to avoid epicene he, and their use of singular they was also less masculine-biased than that of males.
	repository.upenn.edu /dissertations/AAI9727259 (357 words)

	The Epicene Pronouns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Epicene pronouns are basically pronouns that are not gender specific.
		When someone asks you why you wrote ip, tell them that it's an epicene pronoun and act like they are stupid if they aren't familiar with them (especially good with your english teacher).
		Anyways, to sum up, using epicene pronouns will help you be more politically correct, like me.
	www.ucantalk2me.com /Epicene.php (338 words)

	Staump.com -- Connecting Artists with Listeners
		It's the ideal of it all that fuels this concept of an Epicene, for the Epicene has already created a look, a sound, a concept, and a message of how they would like to affect those who want to listen.
		The Epicene was formed in 2003 after Ryan and Kenneth posed for an art/photograhy project called The Filth Circus.
		The Epicene then began working on a more lenghty demo that contained three more songs than their first and had a more complex message.
	www.staump.com /theepicene (511 words)

	Is Atheism a Religion
		We have that problem in English, where there are no epicene pronouns.
		(“Epicene” means “having but one form to indicate either sex.”) We can’t facilely speak of a person without recognizing and/or disclosing that person’s gender.
		We can work around the lack of epicene pronouns by continually utilizing awkward constructions (such as the “that person’s” phraseology just employed), but one has to ask if it wouldn’t be a lot easier to simply fix the problem and be done with it.
	www.restorethepledge.com /FACTS/sermons/sermon003.html (738 words)

	Epicene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		I was tempted to speak about digital art, about the process in which the data defining the work is comprised of stored bites and eventually output in digital form, and to discuss my work in relation to the “milieu”—that is, whether it is created on, influenced by, or simply manipulated through the computer.
		I have decided instead to speak about “Epicene bodies.” The title is intended to signify the “content” of my work, polymorphous bodies, and fusion of organism, machine and gender.
		But I am even more interested in simulating or re-constructing epicene bodies, that is “intersexual” bodies, bodies that have the characteristics of both the male and the female, or of neither, rather than those of the one or the other.
	www.artroca.com /art_folder/epicene2.html (1374 words)

	Interview - Epicene Sound Systems
		You can visit Epicene Sound System on the Internet by clicking here where you not only can check out the label's history and a nicely stuffed catalogue, but also release a couple of MP3s to satisfy your curiosity.
		I emailed some questions to Matthew Reis from Epicene which he was so nice to answer.
		It worked out well (as LPs are expensive) and so we asked Forbes to be a part of the Upsilon LP as well, because the man has great taste and I knew he would want to be involved.
	www.disagreement.net /interviews/interview_epicene.html (1341 words)

	Language Log: Yet another epicene pronoun: Hu are we kidding?
		Yet another epicene pronoun: Hu are we kidding?
		writes of the latest effort to introduce a non-gender-specific (or "epicene") singular third-person pronoun into English.
		dozens and dozens of other epicene pronouns that have been proposed over the past century and a half.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/003835.html (238 words)

	LINGUIST List 4.513: Neologistic Pronouns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The assumption behind the coining of a neologism is that there is a category in English of 'epicene,' which is through some odd quirk in the language miss- ing a pronoun.
		That's the problem with prescriptive use of epicene HE --it makes everything referred to seem male--and it is also the reason why no neologism can work.
		The meaning of the proposed pronoun (i.e., this is a person but of unclear gender) is not a significant semantic category the way say genericity, say, or plurality, might be.
	www.linguistlist.org /issues/4/4-513.html (214 words)

	Linguist List - Book Information
		Few usage issues have proven as persistent and as troublesome as epicene pronouns (i.e., pronouns coreferent with singular antecedents and with referents of unknown or indistinct sex).
		Instead they have given the impression that the problem is irresolvable and is due to a flaw in the English pronoun paradigm: the lack of a dedicated epicene pronoun.
		In terms of usage, the perceived need for a single epicene pronoun is an artifact of tacit assumption of a simplistic theory of pronouns and agreement.
	linguistlist.org /pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=1681 (285 words)

	Welcome to Adobe GoLive 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		My interest in singular they and what has come to be called epicene pronouns comes from my rebelliousness as a 7th grader, when an English teacher told my class that the correct pronoun to use with a singular human when we didn't know if it was male or female was he.
		It was not fair, she said, but it was more important for a pronoun to agree in number with the noun.
		The important idea there is less concerned with epicenes, per se, as much as pronoun theory, particuarly the idea that pronouns provide information about a referent, not just point at it, what is sometimes called ostensive reference.
	qcpages.qc.edu /LCD/faculty/newman/epicenes.html (527 words)

	LINGUIST List 4.595: Last Posting: Gender Markedness
		Bet she's female.') In short, the reason i can't use 'they' as an epicene pronoun is that it is acceptable to me in only some but not all of the environments in which i find such a pronoun desirable.
		Some of them are disturbed by the adoption as an epicene form of what looks, from their background, like a blatant masculine pronoun.
		But my attraction to it was compounded by its (near-)homonymy with the Finnish 'han', which is truly epicene in the sense of being clearly without gender referent (Finnish having no grammatical gender at all).
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/4/4-595.html (1110 words)

	Long story; short pier: Sexing the pronoun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The epicene pronouns, after all, still privilege gender (and sex): the person in question is assumed to partake of both.
		Epicene pronouns were briefly in the news a couple of years back when Mike Newdow, the guy behind a Pledge of Allegiance lawsuit, used his 15 minutes of fame to flog them instead of freedom of religion.
		A lot of proposed epicene pronouns look so wacky that I doubt that their creators ever gave them a test run.
	www.longstoryshortpier.com /vaults/2004/03/01/sexing_the_pronoun (2260 words)

	ee is for eepicene
		In formal writing, I simply rewrite to avoid using third-person singular pronouns entirely (such rewriting is often fairly easy, but it's annoying to have to do) and use "he or she" when absolutely necessary.
		But as the alt.usage.english FAQ points out, "[d]iscussions about gender-neutral pronouns tend to go round and round and never reach a conclusion." So instead of arguing about what epicene pronouns should be used, let's do a quick historical survey.
		Finally, no discussion of epicene pronouns would be complete without Joel Weiss' facetious contribution to the topic: "h'orsh'it." I suppose it's a good thing such suggestions are made, if only to keep us GFP advocates from taking ourselves too seriously.
	www.kith.org /logos/words/lower2/eepicene.html (749 words)

	Epicene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		No, not the 5ive and Brian May supergroup, but Epicene, a bunch of hedonistic troublemakers destined for stardom.
		Epicene have had a strange and eventful past in their short career so far.
		If you want to read about the past, a brief biography can be found here.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /richard.dixon4/index.htm (395 words)

	The Yale Herald - Feb 24, 2006 - Just Nine Guys Dicking around on Stage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The plot of Epicene centers on marriage, inheritance, and mistaken identities but, honestly, the story doesn’t really matter.
		The cast of Epicene are all accomplished: There are nine of them, all male; three of them play women—and play them well.
		Sure, there are guys in dresses, but the other characters seem just as absurd in different ways; mute, cross-dressed, or cuckolded, everyone in Epicene ends up looking foolish.
	www.yaleherald.com /article-p.php?Article=4546 (547 words)

	epicene website slice nrml
		A joint release between Epicene and Rice Control (CD available on Planaria), this vinyl version is limited to 500 copies on clear vinyl, enclosed in transparent acetate covers and resealable slip cases
		Early As Seen In Pace works as record that always seems to be off yet would feel on in any other band's hands, but would then feel somehow wrong if it were.
		The Crime Of Idle hands will most likely be reflected on as the bedsore on Epicene's side, as this is just straight ahead fucking heavy, that is if you consider Dazzling Killmen to be straight ahead.
	www.epicenesound.com /catalog-ess.html (1477 words)

	EPICENE (from the Gr. ... - Online Information article about EPICENE (from the Gr. ...
		Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.
		English grammar there are no true See also:
		epicene nouns, but the term is some-times used instead of See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /EMS_EUD/EPICENE_from_the_Gr_i_rixocvos_.html (150 words)

	Print: The Chronicle: 9/15/2006: Huh? A Pronoun That Goes Both Ways
		This epicene is unique in that it can serve as subject, object, and possessive pronoun all at once.
		And there is in fact a great spectrum of political affinities, and they all put aside political issues, and they are very happy being progressive with the epicene pronoun.
		Now I'm sort of making categories about who needs to be apprised of the new epicene pronoun.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /-people-/faculty/debaron/402/hu.html (446 words)

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