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 | Singular they
Spivak | Ve | Xe | Ze | Sie/hir

References

The excerpt below. A genuinely interested person can perhaps check other excerpts from both Distress and Diaspora on Amazon.

External links

• [Orphanogenesis] is an excerpt from Diaspora detailing the birth of the gender-neutral AI protagonist.

 

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