Ve (pronoun)
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Ve is a gender-neutral pronoun that has not gained widespread acceptance. The gender neutral pronoun 'Ve' was proposed by New Zealand writer Keri Hulme (winner of the 1985 Booker prize for 'the bone people') some time in the 1980s. Greg Egan uses ve for non-gendered artificial intelligences in his novel Diaspora, and for "asex" humans in Distress.
| Subject | Object | Possessive Adjective | Possessive Pronoun | Reflexive | |
| Male | He laughed | I hit him | His face bled | I am his | He shaves himself |
| Female | She laughed | I hit her | Her face bled | I am hers | She shaves herself |
| It | It laughed | I hit it | Its face bled | I am its | It shaves itself |
| Ve | Ve laughed | I hit ver | Vis face bled | I am vis | Ve shaves verself |
| Gender-neutral pronouns |
|---|
| He | One | Singular they |
| Spivak | Ve | Xe | Ze | Sie/hir | Thon |
[edit] References
The excerpt below. A genuinely interested person can perhaps check other excerpts from both Distress and Diaspora on Amazon.
[edit] External links
- Orphanogenesis is an excerpt from Diaspora detailing the birth of the gender-neutral AI protagonist.
