Because people have started to categorize themselves into different categories of gender, it has affected language. Society is becoming more accepting of people who fall into these various gender categories, and because of it there has been less discrimination towards them. And as a way that cisgender people are trying to stop discrimination is by changing the way they speak and write to them. Cisgender people have started to alter pronouns when addressing people who are transgender, who are transitioning, or who don’t identify as a specific gender. They have started using different pronouns to avoid using the wrong pronoun and not come off as being disrespectful. Society has begun replacing feminine and masculine pronouns with gender-neutral
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In Search of Gender Neutrality: is singular “They” a cognitively efficient substitute for generic “He”? by the University of Wisconsin-Madison defines the pronoun “they” as,” a singular person of unknown gender [that] has become ubiquitous, even in writing.”
The word “they” in the late 1300’s was used as a singular pronoun according to Merriam-Webster. But as time has passed it evolved into a plural pronoun and with the acceptance of people who are transgender, transitioning, or non-binary it is now being used once again as a singular pronoun. In 2015 singular pronoun “they” became the word of the year by the American Dialect Society because it rejected the idea of gender-binary or pronouns like he and she and it became one of the most used words of the …show more content…
Its name after Michael Spivak he invented ey, em, eir, eirs, and eirself. Micheal Spivak based it on the word “they” in which he took off the letters “t’ and “h.” He created it from a time where the word “they” was still only considered as a plural pronoun. The more recent pronouns like ne, ve, ze, and xe are almost spelled the same as gender bias pronouns, but a few letters are replaced. For example, instead of ‘h’ in the word he, him, and himself, it's becoming ne, nem, and nemself. A combination of both feminine and masculine pronouns with a different letter at the beginning of each. The change in letters is significant because in ne and ve the letters at the beginning refers to a third person. The letter “n” in ne stands for neutral. The letter “v” in ve comes from science fiction and means without gender. But the ones that don’t have a specific meaning are ze and xe and are considered to be the most popular invented pronouns as of today, and soon it could become a part of our everyday
In Search of Gender Neutrality: is singular “They” a cognitively efficient substitute for generic “He”? by the University of Wisconsin-Madison defines the pronoun “they” as,” a singular person of unknown gender [that] has become ubiquitous, even in writing.”
The word “they” in the late 1300’s was used as a singular pronoun according to Merriam-Webster. But as time has passed it evolved into a plural pronoun and with the acceptance of people who are transgender, transitioning, or non-binary it is now being used once again as a singular pronoun. In 2015 singular pronoun “they” became the word of the year by the American Dialect Society because it rejected the idea of gender-binary or pronouns like he and she and it became one of the most used words of the …show more content…
Its name after Michael Spivak he invented ey, em, eir, eirs, and eirself. Micheal Spivak based it on the word “they” in which he took off the letters “t’ and “h.” He created it from a time where the word “they” was still only considered as a plural pronoun. The more recent pronouns like ne, ve, ze, and xe are almost spelled the same as gender bias pronouns, but a few letters are replaced. For example, instead of ‘h’ in the word he, him, and himself, it's becoming ne, nem, and nemself. A combination of both feminine and masculine pronouns with a different letter at the beginning of each. The change in letters is significant because in ne and ve the letters at the beginning refers to a third person. The letter “n” in ne stands for neutral. The letter “v” in ve comes from science fiction and means without gender. But the ones that don’t have a specific meaning are ze and xe and are considered to be the most popular invented pronouns as of today, and soon it could become a part of our everyday