Re: Apical pronoun in english?

--- Remi Villatel <maxilys@...> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm tranlating my conlang pages in English and I'm
> stuck. In French, I
> created an apical pronoun, the neologism "iel".
>
> il + elle = iel [jEl]
> elle + lui = ellui [ElHi]
> son, sa, ses = (Unchanged because gender here
> applies to the possession.)
>
> <Je m'adresse à ellui. Je lui parle. Iel m'écoute.>
>
> What kind of neologism would create a native english
> speaker?
>
> he + she = *hes [his]
> him + her = *hem [h@m]
> his + her = *hir [hir]
>
I've seen "shem" and "heeshee" used as , well slurrs,
for persons of ambiguous gender and/or those of either
gender trying to present themselves as the other.

> <I am talking to hem. Hes is listening to me.>
>
> I refuse to call my Aliens "it"! So? Native english
> speakers, it's your job
> to create new words en English. What kind of word
> would you use if apical
> Aliens land just on the lawn of the UNHQ and refuse
> to be called either "he"
> or "she"?  (Theorical hypothesis...)  ;-)
>
A.C. Crispin used "hin" in her Starbridg series for
the pre-adolescent members of a race that only became
gendered after adolescence.  I've struggled with
pronoun usage, too.  It's rather difficult to use
English to write stories about aliens with *five*
genders.  I ended up using Greek letter designations
for the genders - alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon.

Adam

> See ya,
>
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> Remi Villatel
> maxilys@normandnet.fr
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