Riism

The Riisme is a modification not-sexist and facilitating Esperanto.

How the riism modifies Esperanto

In Esperanto riist:

the pronoun laughed replaces the pronouns Li and ŝi .
One thus does not use any more Li and ŝi.

the suffix - iĉ- is used in a symmetrical way with the suffix - in .
One uses it to specify or insist on the sex, if necessary.

In a general way, a radical without suffix - iĉ- or - in does not indicate the sex.
Moreover, the twenty words which indicate the male sex traditionally and which have corresponding female forms with the suffix - in, must receive an asexual direction. However, if there is danger of confusion, for example while speaking with somebody which is unaware of the riism, one can add the prefix Ge, when none of the two suffixes - iĉ- and - in are used. For example, dentisto (dentist) can be a man or a woman; (Ge) patro is a father or a mother.

Comments

That constitutes a facilitation mainly for the people speaking Finnois or Chinese, because the pronoun of the third nobody, in these languages, knows distinction between the male sex and female. For example, in Finnish, there is hän (=elle, it) and (=ça).

The riism does not increase the number of forms. Esperanto riist and Esperanto non-riist have three forms: a not marked form and two marked forms. The difference is in the correspondence of these forms with the sex:

non-riism: the not marked form is the masculine, and the two marked forms are the female and neutral forms. For example, patro “father”, patrino “mother” and gepatroj “parents of sex not specified” (Ge wants to say both).
riism: the not marked form is without sex, and the two marked forms are the forms female and male. For example, patro “relative of sex not specified”, patrino “mother” and patriĉo “father”

The riism does not eliminate the prefix Ge in order to make it possible to the riists to communicate with non-riists without confusion. A riist speaking with a non-riist can add the prefix Ge when nor the suffixes - iĉ- or - in are not used and that the non-riist use would indicate the masculine traditionally.

However, for the majority of the words, the non-riist use is into asexual, and Ge is not necessary. For example: dentisto is a dentist of sex not specified in two conventions, and there does not need to say gedentisto. The principal words where the prefix Ge can be used are:

avo edzo fianĉo filo frato kuzo nepo nevo onklo patro vidvo
bubo knabo viro
fraŭlo grafo princo reĝo sinjoro
amiko

The critics of the riism regard the Li elimination and ŝi as being a major fault, affirming that the nonneutral pronouns are useful for the same reasons of insistence and precision that the suffixes - iĉ- and - in, and that while the riism eliminates a sexual imbalance for the names, its requirement that Li and ŝi disappear completely (instead of being usable whenever one wants to specify or insist on the sex) introduced a sexual imbalance between the nouns and the pronouns. The Ido solved this problem by having all these forms.

External bonds

Proclamation riist

(Last version available on archive.org)

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