Gender
neutrality: It must be impossible to deduce gender from the
ungendered words.
Vylz
meets this requirement. It's impossible to deduce gender from
vylz-e protocol.
Scope:
The ungendered words can be used for the following and only the
following: 3rd-person singular-subject , -object, -possessive
adjective, -possessive pronoun, -reflexive, -conjunctive forms,
plus man/woman, men/women and mankind.
Vylz-e
meets requirement. Table 2 shows the solutions.
Distinctiveness:
The ungendered words must not be equivalent in spelling nor
pronunciation with English words in use now that are pro-gender.
Vylz-e
meets this requirement. Vylz-e does not collide with English
gendered words now in use of the same spelling nor of same
pronunciation.
Uniqueness:
The ungendered words can only appear in one row in Table 2.
eg;
“her” violates uniqueness because the word is in both the
Object row and the Posessive adjective row. Similarly, “his”
violates uniqueness because it appears in both the Possessive
-adjective and -pronoun rows.
Vylz-e
meets this requirement. Each ungendered word appears in only one
row in table 2.
Minimal
letters: The ungendered words must be no longer in count of letters
than the smallest of the pro-gender words they can be used in place
of.
eg; 'he'
and 'she' contain 2 and 3 letters, therefore the ungendered word
must have no more than 2 letters.
Vylz-e
meets this requirement. Vylz-e does not exceed character count
limits.
Minimal
syllables: The ungendered words must contain no more syllables than
the smallest pro-gender words they replace.
eg; 'he'
and 'she' each contain 1 syllable, so the gender-neutral
replacement must have no more than 1 syllable.
Vylz-e
meets this requirement. Vylz-e does not exceed syllable count
limits.
Systematic:
The ungendered words must have a repeating, systematic pattern.
Vylz-e
meets this requirement. Vylz-e uses the letter 'e' in all cases
where the gendered words conflict in their vowel. Where the
gendered words use a common vowel, Vylz-e also uses that same
vowel. This is systematic.
Multiple
choice: Every ungendered word must have at least 1 alternate
ungendered word of identical meaning and which also follow all
these requirements.
This is
to provide flexibility to allow the user of the word to choose an
alternate that sounds right. eg; Zori woke up startled by a noise.
As ve listened intently, the sound repeated: ding-dong. Ve hit the
snooze button and promply went back to sleep.
Vylz-e
meets this requirement with a choice of four words for each
ungendered word.
Audible
contrast: The ungendered words defined here must have audible
contrast.
Definition:
Audible contrast is when the end of a word does not sound
phonetically identical to the beginning of the next word. (example
of bad contrast: Is ze here? example of better contrast: Is ve
here? )
Vylz-e
meets this requirement by a choice of alternate words when audible
contrast fails.