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proposes a vast number of possible uses for "em", including but not limited to the replacement of "the formal Dear, because em is a thou word, a term of respect for all people, bar none... Dear Em Doe is redundant. Em Doe is enough, and, since it is brief; it makes room for given names: Em John Doe, Em Mary and John Doe, or, better, Em Doe John, Em Doe John and Mary."
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Also in 1977, Jeffery J. Smith, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Stanford University, writing under the pen name "Tintajl jefry", proposed "Em" as "a personal noun-pronoun which in itself gives no indication of sex, age, or number, though these may be shown by its context." He
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In online anonymous situations, Spivak and other gender neutral pronouns can be motivated by avoiding gendered speech that would make divisions in the social group more likely and the group possibly less productive or enjoyable. This contact with genderless pronouns in virtual communities is
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Herring, Susan. "Gender Differences in Computer-Mediated Communication: Bringing Familiar Baggage to the New Frontier." Making the Net*Work: Is There a Z39.50 in Gender Communication? American Library Association Annual Convention, Miami. 27 June 1994. Web. 1 Aug. 2014.
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Citing Donald G. MacKay, "Birth of a Word," manuscript, Department of Psychology, University of California at Los Angeles. However, if MacKay ever wrote this manuscript, it does not appear on his CV or anywhere else easily
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output described the spivak set as "E – subject", "Em – objective", "Eir – possessive (adjective)", "Eirs – possessive (noun)" and "Emself – reflexive".
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reported on another study by MacKay, testing rates at which subjects miscomprehended the gender of a subject in textbook paragraphs when written with
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reporting (and arguing against) the invention by "an American professor" (likely Donald MacKay) of pronouns based on "the long sound of the vowel e
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Jones, Steven, Cybersociety 2.0: Revisiting Computer-Mediated Community and Technology, Sage Publications, Inc., United Kingdom, 1998
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Love, Jane (2000). "Ethics, Plugged and Unplugged: The Pegagogy of Disorderly Conduct". In Inman, James A.; Sewell, Donna N. (eds.).
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and would therefore be confusing." Similar arguments, along with the desire to distance themselves from the male-centric singular
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table below. The pronoun set used by Lindsay (1920) is also in use, although generally not in the context of Spivak pronouns.
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The precise history of the Spivak pronouns is unclear, since they appear to have been independently created multiple times.
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Three variants of the Spivak pronouns are in use, Rogers (1890), Elverson (1975), and LambdaMOO (1991), highlighted in the
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jefry , Tintajl. "Una: The Emerging Language of the World". (Em Institute 1997), pp. 1-4., cited in Lockheed, Marlaine E.
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games, especially on the Internet, often use Spivak pronouns in their rulesets, as a way to refer to indefinite players.
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Rep. no. Classroom Guide. Washington, DC.: Women's Educational Equity Act Program (ED), 1982. pp. 110-113
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The first recorded use of the pronouns was in a January 1890 editorial by James Rogers, who derives
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Writing in 1977, poet, playwright, and linguist Lillian Carlton submitted a letter to the journal
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Curriculum and Research for Equity: A Training Manual for Promoting Sex Equity in the Classroom.
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sometimes a person's first experience and experimentation with presenting their gender in a
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and derivatives, are still a primary factor in the proliferation of constructed pronouns.
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Martyna, Wendy (1980). "Beyond the 'He/Man' Approach: The Case for Nonsexist Language".
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Yib's Guide to MOOing: Getting the Most from Virtual Communities on the Internet
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The references used may be made clearer with a different or consistent style of
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Rogers, James "That Impersonal Pronoun." Editorial. Comp. William Henry Hills
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CyberSociety 2.0: revisiting computer-mediated communication and community
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programmer, Roger Crew, added "spivak" as a gender setting for players on
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Other writers applied Elverson's original "th"-dropping rule and revived
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http://urd.let.rug.nl/~welling/cc/gender-differences-communication.pdf
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Baron, Dennis E. (1981). "The Epicene Pronoun: The Word That Failed".
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Taking flight with OWLs: Examining Electronic Writing Center Work
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based on pronouns used in a book by American mathematician
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Carlton, Lillian E. (1979). "An Epicene Suggestion".
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