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Or should I just pick a random word or group of letters? The best I could come up with was combining, 'he', 'she', and 'them' to get 'shem'. I have tried just making something up myself, I don't think with much luck. I can have the word come across as 'didn't translate'/'no English equivalent'. As long as I will be able to explain the concept of the word in my text. My story is set a long long time from now and would theoretically be in another language (although the reader would be reading an English 'translation'). Is there any known single (or maybe two-part) word that implies a gender neutral individual person? Maybe some writing convention I haven't come across. Yes, I'd like to be ambigious but not so ambigious that I can't even decipher the prophecies 2 months after I've written them, without using a cheatsheet! I'd still like myself, the readers and the characters to be able to sort of follow the gist. I realise prophecy is meant to be ambigious. 'They**' were not Impressed and kill him/her*" is kindof ambigious and confusing (to write and to read, if I hadn't put in some asterisks). After X years had an argument with 'them*'. A prophecy that goes."*He married her, much to the joy and celebration of 'them**'. I'd also like to mention specifically gender-mentioned individuals (without actually naming them) alongside my unspecified individual. (1 single and two groups, or is that 2 singles and one group, or wait is that 1 individual mentioned twice and one group?) A prophecy that goes.'' and they decided that they need to get together with them''. I'd also like to be able to mention non-specifc groups at the same time as the individual. I could use 'they', but I want to specifically indicate a single Individual* rather than a group**.

I don't want to write 'he' or 'she' as I want to keep the gender underwraps.

I'm trying to write a non gender-identifying 'prophecy' about an individual. I also feel Writers SE may be more aware of other conventions or phrases for what I'm after, maybe some writer or even entire language has already had this problem. In another tense you have, 'him', 'her' and 'them' (which again implies both a single individual AND a group).īefore I go on, I'm asking in Writers SE and not English Usage SE, because I don't mind what language the solution is in. Is there a singular form for the ideas behind the words 'them' and 'they'? You have 'he', 'she', and 'they' (which often implies more than one person, but can imply one).