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FGA: "xe", "xem", and "xyr" are sex-neutral pronouns and adjectives FGA: "xe", "xem", and "xyr" are sex-neutral pronouns and adjectives "xe", "xem", and "xyr" are sex-neutral pronouns and adjectives They are are sex-neutral third-person singular pronouns, that unlike the other third-person pronouns (but like the first-person and second-person pronouns) imply nothing about the sex of their antecedents. homepages.tesco.net /J.deBoynePollard/FGA/sex-neutral-pronouns.html   (904 words)

Wikinfo | Xe (pronoun)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) Xe and its declensions are inflected forms of a proposed gender-neutral third person singular personal pronoun for the English language (see gender-neutral pronouns). These pronouns are suggested as both an alternative and a supplement to the gendered pronouns he and she. The purpose is two-fold: to avoid the necessity of specifying a gender when speaking about someone of unidentified gender, and to provide an alternative pronoun to refer to people who identify themselves as genderqueer, third gender, or some other identity outside of the common gender binary. www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Xe_(pronoun)   (357 words)

Xe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) XE is an updated version of the original SLI chipset, and is designed to occupy the... Xe or XE may refer to: This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. XE is a little tool, to replace the various commands needed to exctract different types of archives... www.miltpremium.info /incredimailpremiumfree/xe   (794 words)

GNP FAQ - History The dialectal epicene pronoun a is a reduced form of the Old and Middle English masculine and feminine pronouns he and heo. If new gender-neutral pronouns are not adopted, i'm sure that singular "they" will still be a point of contention for centuries to come. Besides the centuries-old instinctive use of "their", people have been formally concerned about the gendered pronoun problem since at least 1795, and have been coining new pronouns for about the last century and a half. aetherlumina.com /gnp/history.html   (1582 words)

Gender-neutral pronoun - Definition, explanation Gender-neutral or epicene pronouns are pronouns that neither reveal nor imply the gender or the sex of a person or thing being referred to. In English, the only gender-specific pronouns are in the third-person singular: he, him, himself, his, she, her, herself, and hers. However, around the time of the May Fourth Movement, a new written form 她 of the pronoun was created to specifically represent "she", and 他 is now often restricted to meaning "he". www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/g/ge/gender_neutral_pronoun.php   (703 words)

Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal In linguistics, an inclusive we is a pronoun or verb conjugation that indicates the inclusion of the speaker, the audience, and perhaps other people, as opposed to an exclusive we, which specifically excludes the audience. For example, in Shawnee, the first person plural exclusive independent pronoun is niilawe, the corresponding inclusive pronoun is kiilawe, while the first person singular pronoun is niila and the second person singular pronoun is kiila. It is also common for the inclusive pronoun to be composed of the pronouns for "I" and "you". www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Inclusive_and_exclusive_we   (1089 words)

[No title] Working titles having a masculine gender, such as "workman" and "journeyman" and the pronoun "he", are utilized in the specifications for the sake of brevity, and are intended to refer to persons of either gender. 11.34  Roadbed The roadbed XE "Roadbed"  is that area between the intersection of the upper surface of the roadway and the side slopes or curb lines. The Department does not, expressly or by implication, agree that the actual amount of work will correspond therewith, and reserves the right to increase or decrease the amount of any class or portion of the work, or to omit portions of the work, as may be deemed necessary or advisable by the Engineer. www.dot.ca.gov /hq/esc/oe/specifications/std_specs/1999_StdSpecs/1999_StdSpecs.doc   (13059 words)

Sie and hir Sie and hir are two terms proposed to serve as gender-neutral third person singular personal pronouns in English (see gender-neutral pronouns). These neologisms are used by some people who feel that there are problems with gender-specific pronouns because they imply sex and/or gender (see non-sexist language). The ancestors of this pronoun set could date back to at least the 1930s: to hes, hir, hem (quoted in the Washington Post), and se, sim, sis (quoted in the Liverpool Echo[?]). www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/hi/Hirs.html   (592 words)

[L5R-CCG] "He" or "She" or "He or She" ...... or how about "Xe"?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) The pronoun used for neuters was as follows. The unexpectedness of not finding a standard-lexicon pronoun in a place where it clearly should be is rather jarring. Overall, I think that a gender-neutral singular personal pronoun would be a definite improvement to the English language. www.alderac.com /pipermail/l5r-ccg_alderac.com/2003-October/015154.html   (308 words)

Academic Coronese - A brief primer The ergative case indicates the agent of a verb, and the -m ergative particle indicates a pronoun as the agent. If a pronoun is to be used as absolutive, it must use the -d relative particle together with the absolutive case. Questions are formed using the interrogative particles, yes/no by appending the predicative interrogative particle, multiple-choice by prepending each of the choices (each being a lexical unit) with the optional interrogative particle and direct or indirect questions by starting the sentence with their respective particles. www.orionsarm.com /linguistics/Coronese.html   (1642 words)

Coming Out - SM201 This practice may be becoming less common as acceptance of homosexuality increases, although there has been a recent and ongoing rise in the number of men on the "down-low" or "DL" (this means they may be straight, married, or simply gay but feel very strongly against anyone knowing about their business). "Playing the pronoun game" is the act of concealing sexual orientation in conversation by not using a gender-specific pronoun for a partner or a lover, which would reveal the sexual orientation of the person speaking. In some situations, where a LGBT person revealing their sexual orientation would have adverse consequences (such as the loss of their job), playing the pronoun game is seen to be a necessary act of concealment. www.backdrop.net /sm201/index.php?title=Coming_Out   (1297 words)

Mark Damon Hughes: Epicene Pronouns I don't bother with using androgyne or neuter genders, I just use Xe for everyone whose gender is not definitely known to me. Possibly this is as insulting as He, but there's little call for it at present. I chose "Xe" out of the many proposals because it's the most obvious to people in a technical context who are used to seeing X as a metasyntactic variable. I'd give both neuters and androgynes their own prounoun sets, and also have a set for general "the reader is left to draw own conclusions" statements, where there is probably a gender, but you just don't happen to know it, or it doesn't matter. kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu /~kamikaze/doc/epicene.html   (2979 words)

Spivak pronoun - T-Vox The Spivak pronouns are a proposed set of gender-neutral pronouns in English. The (new) Spivak pronouns are formed from the pronoun "they" by dropping the "th". The original pronoun set is a neologism by Michael Spivak, a mathematician-educator who used it in a number of books. www.t-vox.org /index.php?title=Spivak_pronoun   (395 words)

Gender-neutral pronoun - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music The third-person plural pronouns they, them, themselves, their, and theirs work equally well for either sex, as do the others, such as I, thou, we, you, and so on. However, at the time around May Fourth Movement, a new pronoun 她 (tā) has been invented to represent "she" and 他 is now often used as "he" only. Standard Esperanto has the third person pronouns ŝi, li, and ĝi for she, he, and it, respectively; however, some users use the neologism ri as a gender-neutral third person pronoun. www.music.us /education/G/Gender-neutral-pronoun.htm   (738 words)

Asian EFL Journal: English Language Teaching and Research Articles With the second type of structures; however, the participants are not faced with a partially ambiguous situation since the pronoun that follows the first verb within the first clause doesn't permit any other constituent to follow it but a verb phrase. The result of a matched t-test carried out on this type of structures with the ambiguous pronoun you indicates that the difference between the you structures with that and those without it was significant. All structures had I as the main clause pronoun; while, half of them had the ambiguous pronoun you and the other had the unambiguous pronoun he at the beginning of the subordinate clauses proceeding the possible use of complementizer that. www.asian-efl-journal.com /pta_feb_04_fs.php   (6424 words)

Reports Submitted to FAMSI - Kerry Hull - A Dictionary of Ch'orti' Maya, Guatemala Vowel-initial verbs, which require prefixed verbal inflection in the form of a pronoun (in-, a-, etc.) in imperfective contexts, regularly rely on epenthetic ligatures (either /w/ or /y/) before the pronouns can be prefixed (e.g., uk'i, ‘to cry’ becomes u-(y)-k'i in the third-person-singular perfective form). If the reflexive pronoun appears within parentheses with a main entry verb, it signifies the reflexive pronoun is optional and the meaning will not be significantly changed with or without it. If, however, there are no overt indicators outside of the possessive pronoun for the body part to indicate the possessor, I will use standard possessive pronoun in Spanish to make the referent clear. www.famsi.org /reports/03031/section05.htm   (3238 words)

The Mavens' Word of the Day In your (excellent) discussion of the use of "they" as a singular pronoun, you briefly alluded to epicene, or gender-neutral, pronouns, and said you'd be willing to tackle that subject another day. 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. Many people feel that English does need an epicene pronoun, but many others feel that we're doing fine without one, or that some of the other solutions (the coordinate he or she, the singular they, a rewriting of sentences) suffice. www.randomhouse.com /wotd/index.pperl?date=19980812   (612 words)

Bettnet.com - Musings of Domenico Bettinelli What would happen is that liberals would use xem, xe, xers and conservatives would still use him, he, his/her, she, hers. The most common construction used as a gender-neutral pronoun today is even used by the most conservative of people and they probably don’t realize it. It is the use of they and their in the singular when a third-person singular pronoun is indicated. www.bettnet.com /blog/index.php/weblog/language_as_an_engine_for_change   (418 words)

Terms for Gender Variant People Coined by trans activists and scholars, such gender-bending pronouns emerged (and may continue to emerge) in opposition to, and in recognition of, the insufficiency of gender-specific pronouns (i.e., him, her, his, hers, she, and he) to refer to trans and gender-variant people. A gender-free pronoun set must have no obviously gendered linguistic root, be it from this language or borrowed from, or influenced by, another. While having the benefit of being interchangable with the current third person animate pronouns it is also rather obviously derived from the female pronouns (they've simply replaced the middle letter of each with an 'i') and therefore has a slightly dubious claim to being 'gender-free'. www.androgyne.0catch.com /terms.htm   (4417 words)

Gua\spi Reference Manual: Semantics The other two instances are typical arguments with ``xe-the'': since the prior referent fits this predicate (and in the second sentence ``its garage'' does not), the prior referent is being redesignated. Most of these defaults are ``xe''; ``xu'' is used with math operators because of the meaning of numbers; ``xy'' is used for cases that need sets; ``xe vo'' is common for words that deal with events; and ``xe bi'' appears in a few cases that need texts. If an argument prefixed by ``vr'' or ``vl'' is replicated by a pronoun the same referent is used both places, but if the pronoun has its own prefix that one supercedes any in the antecedent and the referent is chosen independently. www.math.ucla.edu /~jimc/guaspi/semantic.html   (1825 words)

Udi Morphology III The oblique cases of personal pronouns are based on the nominal system except for the genitive which shows a diverging pattern based on older strategies of (class?) prefixation, cp. All demonstrative pronouns can (in their nominalized form) be used for anaphoric purposes, covering the notion of English ‘he, she, it’. The reflexive pronoun is ic^ which in fact is a noun with uncertain meaning (see 4.6 for the description of the functional scope of this pronoun). www.lrz-muenchen.de /~wschulze/morph5.htm   (915 words)

Lexicon person pronoun); {Loc} there {phon: j- ~ human (but not exclusively usable for humans), ja- ~ unspecified whether jan, jas or jat.}, sentence pronoun: the last state, avent or action that was mentioned (refering to a verb that had an agent) [n] (second) patient; pronoun: the one something is done to (refering to a verb that had no agnet). www.kunstsprachen.de /s2/node19.html   (1556 words)

Nissan Frontier Xe 2) " Frontier" -- As to Nissan Frontier Xe In the United States and Canada the frontier was the term applied until the end of the 19th century to the zone of unsettled land outside the region of existing settlements of European immigrants and their descendants. In a broad sense, the notion of the frontier was theedge of the settled country was the place where unlimited cheap land was available to anyone willing to live the hard butindependent life of the pioneer farmer. Similar searches have yielded these phrases Nissan Frontier Xe: New Frontier Hotel Las Vegas, Foothill Nissan, New Frontier Las Vegas, Irvine Nissan, Www Nissan Com, Glendale Nissan, Nissan Com, Peachtree Nissan, Nissan Armada, 2004 Nissan Pathfinder Armada www.altvetmed.com /face/40747-nissan-frontier-xe.html   (646 words)

THE NOUN PHRASE This series is formed adding the prefix ber 'same, again' to the demonstrative: berau, berori, bera (this third one is formed not by the combination of ber and hura, but rather by the combination of ber and a, which is a variant of hura, still in use in western varieties of Euskara). Pronouns are perhaps best thought of as determiners that do not take Noun phrases, but we will consider them in a separate class of their own. This pronoun is only used in family or friendship settings, and it is not used in all varieties of Euskara. www.ehu.es /grammar/gram2.htm   (6585 words)

Michael Tsai - Blog - Gender-neutral Singular Pronouns reader suggests using “xe” (pronounced as in Xerox) to replace he/she. Besides already having multiple meanings in German, all different from the one proposed, “xe” and its variations don’t sound like English to me. Anyway, it doesn’t matter because English speakers decided long ago to use “they” instead. Taylor and Wheeler go as far as assigning subject-specific meanings (frames of reference, if I recall) to the genders of their pronouns. mjtsai.com /blog/2003/01/06/gender_neutral_singular_p   (282 words)

[L5R-CCG] "He" or "She" or "He or She" ...... or how about "Xe"?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) I may not be an English major, But I do think I remember multiple English teachers (both men and women) telling everyone in my English classes that "he" was the proper gender neutral pronoun along with "his" as the appropriate gender neutral possessive. I move to replace instances of "he" or "she" or "he or she" with "xe". You could always place a little ditty in the rules (and glossary therof) defining "xe" as "he or she". www.alderac.com /pipermail/l5r-ccg_alderac.com/2003-October/015144.html   (251 words)

Rejistanian - NSwiki Possessive pronouns are also suffixes of the nouns, but unlike in German, English or even Esperanto, you don't have to learn new words, again the position is deciding. The suffixes are the pronouns, which are used for the grammatical form of verbs: xe, il, mi and so on. If something belongs to someone, who cannot be referenced by a possesvive pronoun, you append the required pronoun and then the name: myju'het'xe = my house, myju'het'me Syku = Syku's (his) house. ns.goobergunch.net /wiki/index.php/Rejistanian   (1864 words)

[No title] No conclusions or interpretations made by a bidder or contractor from the information and data made available by the Department will relieve a bidder or contractor from properly fulfilling the terms of the contract. Full compensation for furnishing all working drawings shall be considered as included in the prices paid for the contract items of work to which the drawings relate and no additional compensation will be allowed therefor. For all excavations 5 feet or more in depth, the Contractor shall submit to the Engineer a detailed plan showing the design and details of the protective systems to be provided for worker protection from the hazard of caving ground during excavation. www.dot.ca.gov /hq/esc/oe/specifications/std_specs/2006_StdSpecs/2006_StdSpecs.doc   (13171 words)

Wikinfo | Sie and hir Some science fiction writers have been known to use the sie and hir pronouns for fictional hermaphrodite characters. Furthermore, sie is the female pronoun in German. People commonly use they and them when they are talking about an indefinite person and feel the need to use a gender-neutral pronoun. www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Sie_and_hir   (742 words)

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