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A third-person pronoun is a pronoun that refers to an entity other than the speaker or listener. [1] Some languages, such as Slavic, with gender-specific pronouns have them as part of a grammatical gender system, a system of agreement where most or all nouns have a value for this grammatical category.
Xe tossed the ball to Jim, and xi threw it back. At this point xe -> xi is proposed as a common pattern; whether people choose to extend it further xe -> xi -> xo etc. should be considered at a later date. The "i" in "xi" is assumed to be short like in "sit".
A set of four badges, created by the organizers of the XOXO art and technology festival in Portland, Oregon. Preferred gender pronouns (also called personal gender pronouns, often abbreviated as PGP [1]) are the set of pronouns (in English, third-person pronouns) that an individual wants others to use to reflect that person's own gender identity.
"Ze" as a gender-neutral English pronoun dates back to at least 1864. [ 1 ] [ 14 ] In 1911, an insurance broker named Fred Pond invented the pronoun set "he'er, his'er and him'er", which the superintendent of the Chicago public-school system proposed for adoption by the school system in 1912, sparking a national debate in the US, [ 15 ] with ...
A gender neutral title is a title that does not indicate the gender identity, whatever it may be, of the person being formally addressed.Honorifics are used in situations when it is inappropriate to refer to someone only by their first or last name, such as when addressing a letter, or when introducing the person to others.
Gender is a spectrum, and there is no finite number of gender identities. In fact, "there are infinite places you can land on," says Mezulis. "The fact that we use binary genders is a shortcut ...
I also noted other spellings, since I wasn't familiar with the xe/xyr/xem set, but had usually seen the xe/xer/xim one, as in this discussion. -- Ghavral 01:42, 30 May 2006 (UTC) [ reply ] "David knew it was she all along" is not right, it should be "David knew it was her all along" -- Macarion 01:46, 5 July 2006 (UTC) [ reply ]
Gender-neutral language or gender-inclusive language is language that avoids reference towards a particular sex or gender. In English, this includes use of nouns that are not gender-specific to refer to roles or professions, [ 1 ] formation of phrases in a coequal manner, and discontinuing the collective use of male or female terms. [ 2 ]