From: "Remi Villatel" <maxilys@...>
> 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.)
I thought _on_ already fulfilled that function, a gender-nonspecific
first-person pronoun. Of course it doesn't have a pure genitive form, so
_d'on_ would be used.
> What kind of neologism would create a native english speaker?
>
> he + she = *hes [his]
> him + her = *hem [h@m]
> his + her = *hir [hir]
I usually just say "one", and it's very close to the aforementioned French
word (though not related -- isn't _on_ derived from _homme_ "man, human"?) I
don't even like saying "he or she".
> 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...) ;-)
I agree; "it" belongs to inanimate objects.