Ze vs Xe - What's the difference?
ze | xe | Synonyms |
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* 1992 , Tristan Jones, Adrift , page 257:
(neologism) they (singular).
* {{quote-book
, year = 1996
, month = June
, title = Nearly Roadkill: an Infobahn erotic adventure
, first = Caitlin
, last = Sullivan
, coauthors =
, publisher = Serpent's Tail
, location = New York
, isbn = 978-1852424183
, id =
, lccn = 95072971
, ol = 820831M
, page = 10
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=QV5bAAAAMAAJ
, passage = But I do know what sex ze' is. It used to influence me. But now I talk to hir like a normal person. I mean, without thinking about what ' ze is.}}
* {{quote-book
, date = 1997-12-18
, title = My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely
, first = Kate
, last = Bornstein
, authorlink = Kate Bornstein
, publisher = Routledge
, location = London, New York
, isbn = 978-0415916738
, id =
, lccn = 98134184
, ol = 7495768M
, page = 130
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=NjH32xMTu7kC&pg=PA130
, passage = A case in point is Tula, a transgendered woman who for years lived well as a model and actress until ze was outed in both national and international media.}}
* {{quote-book
, date = 2006-03-22
, title = Drag King Dreams
, first = Leslie
, last = Feinberg
, publisher = Carroll & Graf
, location = New York
, isbn = 978-0786717637
, id =
, lccn = 2006297545
, ol = 17890120M
, page = 205
, passage = Ze'' takes my right hand in ''hirs and folds it into a fist.}}
* {{quote-book
, date = 2010-10-12
, title = The Girl Must Die: A Monster Girl Memoir
, first = Erika
, last = Lopez
, others = Hicken, Jeffrey
, publisher = Monster Girl Media
, location = San Francisco
, isbn = 978-0984401406
, lccn = 21010902427
, page = 143
, passage = Ze changed hir name to one of those New Testament names, and re-fashioned hirself into a soft, puffy, half-finished hermaphrodite nicknamed, The Pop n' Fresh Doe.}}
* {{quote-book
, date = 2011-03-15
, title = Up Against It
, first = M. J.
, last = Locke
, publisher = Tor
, location = New York
, isbn = 978-0765315151
, id =
, lccn = 2010036538
, ol = 24494916M
, page = 361
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=dTtZ4GPU6z0C&pg=PA361
, passage = Hir face was implacable, but ze dashed away in tears.}}
(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.
}}
Xe is a synonym of ze.
As pronouns the difference between ze and xe
is that ze is they singular. Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns {{term|he and {{term|she}}.} while xe is they singular. Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns {{term|he and {{term|she}}.}.As an article ze
is eye dialect of lang=en usually signifying a foreign accent, often French.As an initialism ZE
is zollinger-Ellison syndrome.ze
English
Etymology 1
Article
(head)- Then one French-American sous-chef, still in his white kitchen gear, climbed down from the cockpit, where he had been inspecting the cabin, peering inside, murmuring, "wonderfool–wonderfool, ze workmansheep!"
