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Lytec Medical Xe -- Recommendations and Resources I felt this would be inapprpriate in the gender-neutral pronouns page because it is a survey of how gender neutral pronouns are handled in other languages and not of specific pronouns; also because Sie_and_hir has its own page, it looked as if each gender neutral pronoun has its own page. It would probably be more appropriate to have all the gender neutral pronouns on one page, but on a page separate from gender-neutral pronouns because that page is a survey of how different languages handle gender neutral pronouns. Xe, xyr, and xem are gender-neutral pronouns designed to supplement the existing pronouns in the English language. www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/89/lytec-medical-xe.html   (567 words)

Gender-neutral pronoun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Interrogative pronouns (wer, wessen, wem, wen, welchen and was für einen / who, whose, whom, who, which and what kind) and indefinite pronouns jemand and niemand (somebody and nobody) are gender-neutral. In English, the only gender-specific pronouns are in the third-person singular: he, him, himself, his, she, her, herself, and hers. The respectful/plural third-person Tamil pronoun avar can be used to refer to a gender-neutral third person. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Epicene_pronoun   (1081 words)

Non-Sexist Language The practice of assigning masculine gender to neutral terms comes from the fact that every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved, and English evolved through most of its history in a male-centered, patriarchal society. The masculine-gender pronouns did not reflect a belief that masculine pronouns could refer to both sexes. In the language used in acts of Parliament, the new law said, "words importing the masculine gender shall be deemed and taken to include females." Although similar language in contracts and other legal documents subsequently helped reinforce this grammatical edict in all English-speaking countries, it was often conveniently ignored. www.stetson.edu /artsci/history/nongenderlang.html   (1819 words)

Information Headquarters: Gender-specific pronoun The other English pronouns do not make this distinction, i.e., they are "ungendered", although all eight pronouns have been also used in a gender-neutral sense: see "generic usage" below. Gender-specific pronouns are also sometimes used when most members of some group are the same gender, with a small number of members of the opposite gender. The gender-specific pronouns of a language distinguish between male and female people (and often of animals as well). www.informationheadquarters.com /History/His.shtml   (836 words)

ee is for eepicene 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. Those who believe that "he" remains a gender-neutral pronoun and should be used in all cases where the subject's gender is not specifically known to be female. John Chao, maintainer of the lovely (though slow to download) GFP FAQ, calls them "gender-free pronouns." Dennis Baron, author of www.kith.org /logos/words/lower2/eepicene.html   (749 words)

GNP FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions Gendered pronouns are those that indicate gender: he, she, him, her, hers, his, hisself or himself, herself, and derivative forms like she'd or he'd. Comment: I think the traditional forms have perfectly good neutral pronouns: he, his, and him. Gender has its foundation in physical sex, and when people hear "she" they think of females.) Those other characteristics could be much more telling about a person, much more significant, than eir sex. www.aetherlumina.com /gnp/faq.html   (6378 words)

The Creation of Meaning Through Language The lack of gender-neutral singular pronouns has for hundreds of years forced speakers of English to assign a gender to every person whom they wish to speak about, and is largely responsible for enforcing the artificial dichotomy which labels humans as ‘women’ or ‘men’. In 1795, the grammarian L. Murray wrote that it was proper to assign the masculine gender to nouns which are “conspicuous for the attributes of imparting or communicating, and which are by nature strong and efficacious”, and the feminine to those which refer to “containing or bringing forth, or which are peculiarly beautiful or amiable”. Using they or their as singular pronouns is perfectly fine when referring to a hypothetical person who will only be referred to a few times, but it does not suffice when we wish to refer to a specific person repeatedly, say, over the course of a novel or long conversation. www.theorem.ca /~mvcorks/meaning_language.html   (2598 words)

English Language Forum (ESL) - "Hu," from "human," as a pronoun Some people say that their preferable technique to avoid gender-biased pronouns is to change the noun into plural. The issue at the time was not that [hju] and "mr" have male gender associations-on the contrary, it's that they are exclusive. pronouns is to change the noun into plural. usingenglish.com /forum/.../1462-hu-human-pronoun-print.html   (2268 words)

linguaphiles: Non-sexist or Nonsensical? On the other hand, their pronunciations are important, and many of those forms sound like commons slurs of gendered pronouns, so these would actually serve to increase the confusion they were meant to alleviate. There's nothing wrong with gendered pronouns, and, in the words of the immortal philosopher Surak, there is no offense where none is taken. I don't think that 'sexist' is the right word to use to describe gendered pronoun use when referencing people who do identify as male or female. community.livejournal.com /linguaphiles/1598036.html   (1626 words)

Enlightenment: Objectivist Scholarship Haven While not strictly neutral, language that alternates between use of masculine and feminine pronouns is a reasonable way of approximating gender-neutrality in some cases, and will be counted as gender-neutral for the purposes of this essay. It is further worth noting that the historical usage of masculine pronouns as gender neutral is recent and artificial: it was established formally by an Act of Parliament in England in 1850. The claim is advanced by proponents of gender-neutral language that use of "man", "he", "his" and "him", which I will refer to henceforth as "masculine pronouns", cannot properly be taken to include women. enlightenment.supersaturated.com /essays/text/tomradcliffe/genderneutral.html   (4741 words)

Gender-neutral pronoun at opensource encyclopedia In non-sexist language, gender-neutral or epicene pronouns neither reveal nor imply sex or gender when referring to people, animals or things. Japanese underwent a transition similar to Chinese in which the gender neutral third person referent "kare" became associated with he, while the word "kanojo" was invented to represent she in translated Western novels. The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis can be interpreted to predict that people will be less sexist if they don't distinguish between genders in pronouns and other aspects of speech. www.wiki.tatet.com /Gender-neutral_pronouns.html   (384 words)

Gender-neutral language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The various forms of the Chinese language are remarkably gender-neutral due to its underlying structure, and possesses few linguistic markers of gender, even though Chinese society has historically been shown to have significant degree of male dominance in the social structure as well as education and written literature. The situation of gender neutral language modification is very different in languages that have masculine and feminine grammatical gender, such as French, German, and Spanish, simply because it is impossible to construct a gender-neutral sentence the way it can be done in English. Gender-neutral language (gender-generic, gender-inclusive, non-sexist, or sex-neutral language) is language that attempts to refer neither to males nor females when discussing an abstract or hypothetical person whose sex cannot otherwise be determined. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gender-neutral_language   (8233 words)

Althouse: E.B. White on gender-neutral writing. Her parents named her either within a fashion of gender neutrality, reversal, or ambiguity, or else within a family or cultural tradition that transcended those considerations. But English pronouns are mainly neuter, except for the personal pronoun "he" that everyone used to understand is neuter, and a bunch of zealous ninnies who probably don't speak other languages insist that we bowdlerize our speech and writing with awkward phrases like "he or she" or -- worse -- the ungrammatical and ambiguous "their." A section on pronouns includes a sample sentence that mentions "Polly." On the facing page is a loud, large picture of Polly--who has nothing to do with the topic under discussion. althouse.blogspot.com /2005/10/eb-white-on-gender-neutral-writing.html   (4951 words)

glanguage.txt A second common practice in gender- neutral language is the usage of a male-as normative-noun, as in the sentence: Man in composed of organs, bones, and tissue. One of the most common practices of gender-neutral language in writing and speaking is male pronoun choice, as in the sentence: The infant typically begins to sit up around six- months-old; he may begin crawling at about the same time. The generic use of the word "man" probably led to the practice of using male pronouns such as "he" and "his" to represent both genders. www.pitt.edu /~heinercm/glanguage.txt   (1155 words)

Announcing a new gender neutral pronoun! This new pronoun is derived from pre-existing pronouns used of both genders and entities of non-gender! Announcing the universal pronoun that is gender neutral and can be used to reference an indefinitely specified person or thing! The proposal: Combine the English pronouns She, He, and It into one inclusive politically correct universal pronoun as follows: She he it..... www.holysmoke.org /fem/fem0318.htm   (117 words)

LINGUIST List 3.275: Gender, Spanish la - el The extinct language Sumerian made no gender distinctions whatsoever, even in the pronouns; but it did distinguish between animate and inanimate. There are no "he" vs "she" pronouns at all. Although the view is not very widespread, there are advantages to viewing the feminine form of French adjectives as the basic form, and to deriving the masculine from the feminine (most of the time by merely deleting the final consonant). www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de /linguist/issues/3/3-275.html   (1789 words)

July 2001 eDebate Archives: RE: Gender Neutral Pronoun use gendered pronouns inadvertently and intend no harm, and then on the have never made the claim that "people use gendered pronouns inadvertently claims of women or non-women who claim to be harmed by gendered language. www.ndtceda.com /archives/200107/0405.html   (520 words)

Gender neutral pronouns - Uncyclopedia Gender neutral pronouns (GNP) are replacements for real pronouns that evil feminists try to enforce upon their superiors. The standard system is a compromise between evil feminists and sane men, in that when a masculine pronoun is used it preserves its gender (according to the wishes of sane men), and when a feminine pronoun is used it is converted to a gender neutral pronoun (according to the wishes of evil feminists). *Note that the lesbian/nerd system still uses gendered pronouns when the gender is specified, as in "her" for the wife (who is always female). uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Gender_neutral_pronouns   (428 words)

Gender-neutral pronoun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In modern Chinese, there is no gender distinction in pronouns in the spoken language: the pronoun 他 (tā) means "he" or "she". The respectful/plural third-person Tamil pronoun avar can be used to refer to a gender-neutral third person. However, patriarchal societies that speak genderless languages, such as the Chinese, demonstrate that gender-specific language is not the sole cause of sexism. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun   (1139 words)

LINGUIST List 4.982: Gender-specific and gender-neutral pronouns A couple of languages were mentioned that apparently have both gender-specific and gender-neutral pronouns. Spoken putonghua has a gender-neutral pronoun in the third person (_ta_); but the written form uses different second radicals for men and women. However, Finnish does have a pronoun 'h"an', which can mean either he or she depending on the gender of the person in question. www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de /linguist/issues/4/4-982.html   (2533 words)

Talk:Quest for gender-neutral pronouns - Meta I find some of the other "gender-neutral" formulations such as using "she" or "s/he" instead of "he" as the "unknown gender" pronoun to be very distracting since almost everything I've ever read is not written that way. As far as the idea of "he" being gender neutral, this is somewhat dubious. It seems that it is acceptable to refer to a child of unknown gender as "it", yet it is never acceptable (and would be very insulting) to refer to an adult as "it". meta.wikimedia.org /wiki/Talk:Quest_for_gender-neutral_pronouns   (3361 words)

Global : Ideas : Bank - Gender-neutral third-person pronoun There are already lots of proposals for gender neutral pronouns. I propose we use a gender-neutral third-person pronoun, which means "he" or "she" without specifying gender. This leads us to say "he" when we mean "he or she." It also requires us to know what gender a person is when it is otherwise not necessary. www.globalideasbank.org /site/bank/idea.php?ideaId=4478   (321 words)

Articles: Gender-neutral pronouns Though this may be unexceptionable enough from the point of view of gender, it’s a messy and ungainly solution stylistically, and one to be avoided. This would be the ideal solution, but pronouns are part of the deepest core of our vocabulary and it has been a very long time indeed since a new one has come into the language. The best options seem to be to use the plural pronouns them and their in casual or informal writing and rewrite your text to avoid the problem in more formal writing. www.worldwidewords.org /articles/genpr.htm   (521 words)

Gender-Sensitive Language Although most of us learned in elementary school that masculine pronouns (he, his, him) should be used as the "default" in situations where the referent (that is, the person or thing to which you're referring) could be either male or female, that usage is generally considered unacceptable now. The English language provides pronoun options for references to masculine nouns (for example, "he" can substitute for "Tom"), feminine nouns ("she" can replace "Lucy"), and neutral/non-human nouns ("it" stands in for "a tree"), but no choice for sex-neutral third-person singular nouns ("the writer," "a student," or "someone"). Another, more simple, option the gender-savvy writer can use to deal with situations in which the gender of the referent is unknown or variable is to write out both pronoun options as "she or he" or "she/he". www.unc.edu /depts/wcweb/handouts/gender.html   (2125 words)

The Buck Stops Here: Gendered Pronouns Perhaps it should be supplemented as follows: If a pronoun is gender-neutral, it should be capable of use in all settings where gender is indeterminate, except where the pronoun seems to imply the contradictory notion that gender is determinate after all. Premise 1: If a pronoun is gender-neutral, it should be capable of use in all settings where gender is indeterminate. I had always thought there was a dialect of English where he could be used as a gender-neutral pronoun. stuartbuck.blogspot.com /2004/08/gendered-pronouns.html   (1064 words)

Fun_People Archive - 12 Jul - Third Person Animate Singular, Gender-Neutral Either pronoun can be, and is, used to refer to a person of either gender, whereas "E" could also stand for "either." Use of the new pronoun when we really mean "either" would enable the old pronouns to retain their precise meanings. The new pronoun celebrates the distinctions between genders by identifying those instances in which the differences are not relevant. It is frustrating for them (nondescript in gender, incorrect in number) because their intention is to use language to express their ideas correctly, succinctly and without insult. www.langston.com /Fun_People/1995/1995BAR.html   (1109 words)

GISAI: Glossary I was forced to start using gender-neutral pronouns when referring to intelligent AIs, since to use "he" or "she" would imply cognitive hardware that such an AI would very specifically not have. At one point I was using "ve" to refer to a human of indefinite gender, but I have since realized that this is just as inaccurate as referring to an AI as "he" or "she". Not only is "it" used as a pronoun for inanimate matter, but "it" is also a general anaphor, like "this" or "that". www.singinst.org /GISAI/meta/glossary.html   (7238 words)

Every Writer Should Choose His Pronouns Carefully Not satisfied only to abolish the gender-neutral masculine pronoun (a convention that had been honored in English grammar for centuries), they targeted other words. This is more true of some other languages than it is of English, where only pronouns have gender. Before concluding, it is worth noting that gender in grammar and language has a long, international tradition of being unrelated to gender (or sex) in the real world. www.grammarmudge.cityslide.com /articles/article/307084/9286.htm   (918 words)

Gender neutral - Hatrack River Writers Workshop I'd say that the most popular (and possibly oldest) gender neutral pronoun (for people) is "they". The only Indo European language I recall which doesn't have gender specific third person pronouns is Finnish, which branched from the rest a long time ago. The word you're looking for is "thon." Possibly a combination of the words "that one." I've never heard anyone actually use it, but it's the most well known gender neutral pronoun in the English language. www.hatrack.com /forums/writers/forum/Forum1/HTML/001849.html   (663 words)

Gender-Sensitive Language Because most English language readers no longer understand the word "man" to be synonymous with "people," writers today must think more carefully about the ways they express gender in order to convey their ideas clearly and accurately to their readers. The English language provides pronoun options for references to masculine nouns (for example, "he" can substitute for "Tom"), feminine nouns ("she" can replace "Lucy"), and neutral/non-human nouns ("it" stands in for "a tree"), but no choice for sex-neutral third-person singular nouns ("the writer," "a student," or "someone"). Once you've recognized that a gender distinction is being made by such a word though, conversion of the gendered noun into a gender-savvy one is usually very simple. www.unc.edu /depts/wcweb/handouts/gender.html   (2125 words)

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