Sie vs Xe - What's the difference?
sie | xe | Synonyms |
To sink; fall; drop.
To fall, as in a swoon; faint.
(dialectal) To drop, as water; trickle.
To sift.
(dialectal) To strain, as milk; filter.
(neologism)
* 1993 September 24, Alex Martelli, "punishment vs ethics (was Re: Discipline my daughters)", in alt.sex.bondage, Usenet :
* {{quote-book
, year = 2010
, date = September 16
, title = Amaranth and Ash
, author = Jessica Freely
, publisher = Lightning Source
, location = La Vergne
, isbn = 9781461136620
, page = 101
, passage = "You must be Ash," sie said, hir voice a shade deeper than Amaranth's.
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=WpHMcQAACAAJ
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 2011
, date = May 19
, title = The Other Genders: Androgyne, Genderqueer, Non-Binary Gender Variant
, author = Ken Wickham
, publisher = CreateSpace
, isbn = 9781461136620
, page = 7
, passage = Sie may feel that hir actual identity of hir gender is supposed to be both/neither male or female, outside of gender, third gender, beyond gender, absence of gender, mixing gender, changing gender, or all genders.
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=zWmWZwEACAAJ
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 2011
, date = August 16
, title = Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape
, author = Petra Kuppers
, publisher = Palgrave Macmillan
, location = New York
, isbn = 9780230298279
, id =
, lccn = 2011012058
, page = 18
, passage = When I asked hir about hir preferred self-identification in this scene, sie' offered me this language, '' sie sharply performs the hotness of teasing all the audience from the edge-space of androgyny.'
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=jAP1tgAACAAJ
}}
(label) they (singular).
* {{quote-web
, year = 1992
, first = Jim
, last = Sinclair
, title = If you could choose...
, site = Jim Sinclair's Web Site
, url = http://web.syr.edu/~jisincla/choice.htm
, archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20031103004908/http://web.syr.edu/~jisincla/choice.htm
, archivedate = 2003-11-03
, passage = Anyone I would be interested in would have to be a pretty special person. I wouldn't want to miss out on knowing such a person just because xe happened to be the "wrong" sex.
}}
* {{quote-newsgroup
, date = 1993-09-14
, first = Jim
, last = Sinclair
, title = Re: Jim and Steve's snoring discussion
, newsgroup = bit.listserv.autism
, id = AUTISM%93091417074261@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU
, url = https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups!msg/bit.listserv.autism/2pyrOMzt_nQ/5J-RU5P3hnIJ
, passage = Telepathy would require that you share the other person's knowledge of xyr own mind, which in turn requires recognizing that xe' is actually aware of what ' xe' s thinking, which is incompatible with psychiatry.
}}
* {{quote-newsgroup
, date = 1999-04-28
, first = Dagmar
, last = Alpen
, title = Re: Think of a small tribe of people...
, newsgroup = talk.politics.libertarian
, id = 7g74qb$8sq$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de
, url = https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups!msg/talk.politics.libertarian/Wxi8N4PwnW0/yRrhhmYAGygJ
, passage = Now full ownership in the modern sense... implies four rights of the owner: 1. The right to decide what xe does with xyr property; 2. the right to decide what others do with xyr property;
}}
* {{quote-newsgroup
, date = 2000-12-11
, title = Silencing and ad hominem attacks
, first = Mary Ellen
, last = Curtin
, newsgroup = alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated
, id = 074d01c06393$c1a2fb00$5be9cfcf@default
, url = http://groups.google.com/group/alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated/msg/3a23ecdc585ca8b1
, passage = Since xe' went to the trouble of re-posting, I figured it was about something of more than usual importance to hir... I wrote to EmGee privately and '''xe''' said yes, that was one of the things ' xe was talking about.
}}
* {{quote-newsgroup
, date = 2002-03-03
, title = Re: Newbie...not quite sure yet...
, first = Ken
, last = von Mattell
, newsgroup = alt.suicide.holiday
, id = rif48uc0ja9q3km9o2jf167d4u4o3qpk1k@4ax.com
, url = https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups!msg/alt.suicide.holiday/azDueNoiilA/JtxS4uc12pkJ
, passage = I mean, suppose there's someone who can't leave the house because xe''s all tied up with counting tiles in the bathroom all day, and if ' xe manages to get done with that, there's the stove to check again and again ... you get the idea.
}}
Sie is a synonym of xe.
As pronouns the difference between sie and xe
is that sie is (neologism) while xe is (label) they (singular).As a verb sie
is to sink; fall; drop.As a noun sie
is a drop.sie
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l) * (l), (l) (Scotland)Verb
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
* (l)Pronoun
- If the child is about the intellectual equal of the parent, sie will eventually start holding hir own in discussions,