Helping society by extending the English language to have a 3rd person protocol of pronouns for communicating unambiguously and gender-free.
Mission: Increase English language gender-free clarity by reducing ambiguity thru Vylz-e Protocol
Style Guide DRAFT 3, 9/12/2006 1. Null choice Although Vylz protocol provides a choice, there may be situations where choice is not desired. This Null choice is designed to not allow a choice by pre-selecting one of the four letters: Z. This style only allows Ze, zem, zer, zes, zelf, zan, zen, and zind. The user need not be concerned about having to make a decision. eg; An organization Blah corp. could decree that all their documents will use 'Z' style for 3rd persons references. This leaves the employees no choice. 2. Singleton per communication The singleton per commuunication style allows one letter (a singleton) per communication, where communication is a letter, essay, short story, long story, discussion, or some unit of communication which is more than a sentence and paragraph and ends. The choice of letter per communication is for the user to make. eg; An entire book could be written with 3rd person references using 'V'. 3. Singleton per person The singleton per person style allows a person to use only one letter (per person) of the vylz quartet. Another user can use a different user. That letter is used consecutively by the user and if another letter of vylz is used by that user, then that's the new letter for the person going forward. eg; "When I was in my teens, I used 'V', but now I use 'Z'". 4. Singleton per domain I'm not sure I like this idea, because vylz offers only 4 letters, yet there are more than 4 domains, so exclusivity per domain wouldn't be allowed. eg; Legal documents could use 'L' entirely. This need not mean 'L' coudln't be used for non-legal-related docs, just that legal docs would be constrained to 'L' for 3rd person references. 5. Singleton with fallback This style allows for any of the other singleton styles to allow for a fallback letter during specifically documentated cases, such as week audible contrast. 6. Nth persons 3<=N<=6 With four letters in vylz protocol, it's possible to maintain not only a 3^rd person reference, but also 4^th, 5^th and 6^th persons distinctly. Each of the third thru sixth person gets assigned a distinct letter from vylz and then that letter is subsequently used only for that entity. The user may choose the order of the four letters in vylz to start using first and subsequently. Alternatively, if the user doesn't want to choose the order, then use the following order: Z, Y, V, L. 7. Formal document style Formal documents, such as legal documents, sometimes require a unambiguous precision that eliminates all doubt as to its meaning. Vylz protocol excels here because vylz is designed to disambiguate 3rd person communications. 8. Sentimental ship/object style Some people like to call inanimate objects like ships and cars by the word 'she'. The key seems to be affection-related or sentimental connection to the object. Likewise, 'he' seems to be used less frequently to refer to inanimate objects where the affection is inverted, or the sentimentality is less, or outright hatred. Whether good or bad, gender-based words are being used in a situation where there is no gender. Vylz protocol may be used for such communications where the communicator wishes to specify some level of affection or sentiment to an object, yet prefers to not use a word associated with gender. The user may choose any of the four letters from vylz for such references to a ship or more generally an affection-related or sentimental object. eg; "We launched zem at dawn, and ze sailed into the sunset". eg; "All I ask for is a tall ship, and a star to steer zem by". eg; "Zer curves affected me, so I bought the corvette". 9. Rhythmic style Rhymes and poems are communications with at least two components: meaning and rhythm. Vylz protocol can contribute a little to the meaning by providing the ability to specify gender-free words. Vylz can also contribute to the rhyme or poem by allowing four choices of the start of the 3^rd person words. Although the rhyme occurs at the end of the word, not the beginning, vylz may thus only contribute nominally, unless the front of the word had significance. The 'zind' word in place of mankind is one less syllable, so that might be appropriate where syllable counts needed one less.

Helping society by extending the English language to have a 3rd person protocol of pronouns for communicating unambiguously and gender-free.

Mission: Increase English language gender-free clarity by reducing ambiguity thru Vylz-e Protocol

Style Guide DRAFT 3, 9/12/2006

1. Null choice

Although Vylz protocol provides a choice, there may be situations where choice is not desired. This Null choice is designed to not allow a choice by pre-selecting one of the four letters: Z. This style only allows Ze, zem, zer, zes, zelf, zan, zen, and zind. The user need not be concerned about having to make a decision.

eg; An organization Blah corp. could decree that all their documents will use
'Z' style for 3rd persons references. This leaves the employees no choice.

2. Singleton per communication

The singleton per commuunication style allows one letter (a singleton) per communication, where communication is a letter, essay, short story, long story, discussion, or some unit of communication which is more than a sentence and paragraph and ends. The choice of letter per communication is for the user to make.

eg; An entire book could be written with 3rd person references using 'V'.

3. Singleton per person

The singleton per person style allows a person to use only one letter (per person) of the vylz quartet. Another user can use a different user. That letter is used consecutively by the user and if another letter of vylz is used by that user, then that's the new letter for the person going forward.

eg; "When I was in my teens, I used 'V', but now I use 'Z'".

4. Singleton per domain

I'm not sure I like this idea, because vylz offers only 4 letters, yet there are more than 4 domains, so exclusivity per domain wouldn't be allowed.

eg; Legal documents could use 'L' entirely. This need not mean 'L' coudln't be used for non-legal-related docs, just that legal docs would be constrained to 'L' for 3rd person references.

5. Singleton with fallback

This style allows for any of the other singleton styles to allow for a fallback letter during specifically documentated cases, such as week audible contrast.

6. Nth persons 3<=N<=6

With four letters in vylz protocol, it's possible to maintain not only a 3^rd person reference, but also 4^th, 5^th and 6^th persons distinctly. Each of the third thru sixth person gets assigned a distinct letter from vylz and then that letter is subsequently used only for that entity. The user may choose the order of the four letters in vylz to start using first and subsequently. Alternatively, if the user doesn't want to choose the order, then use the following order: Z, Y, V, L.

7. Formal document style

Formal documents, such as legal documents, sometimes require a unambiguous precision that eliminates all doubt as to its meaning. Vylz protocol excels here because vylz is designed to disambiguate 3rd person communications.

8. Sentimental ship/object style

Some people like to call inanimate objects like ships and cars by the word 'she'. The key seems to be affection-related or sentimental connection to the object. Likewise, 'he' seems to be used less frequently to refer to inanimate objects where the affection is inverted, or the sentimentality is less, or outright hatred. Whether good or bad, gender-based words are being used in a situation where there is no gender. Vylz protocol may be used for such communications where the communicator wishes to specify some level of affection or sentiment to an object, yet prefers to not use a word associated with gender. The user may choose any of the four letters from vylz for such references to a ship or more generally an affection-related or sentimental object.

eg; "We launched zem at dawn, and ze sailed into the sunset".
eg; "All I ask for is a tall ship, and a star to steer zem by".
eg; "Zer curves affected me, so I bought the corvette".

9. Rhythmic style

Rhymes and poems are communications with at least two components: meaning and rhythm. Vylz protocol can contribute a little to the meaning by providing the ability to specify gender-free words. Vylz can also contribute to the rhyme or poem by allowing four choices of the start of the 3^rd person words. Although the rhyme occurs at the end of the word, not the beginning, vylz may thus only contribute nominally, unless the front of the word had significance. The 'zind' word in place of mankind is one less syllable, so that might be appropriate where syllable counts needed one less.