| 1. | She does refrain from using the masculine gender when speaking of God.
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| 2. | Garbo had a habit of speaking of herself in the masculine gender.
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| 3. | Choosing the masculine gender will often seem more formal than using the feminine.
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| 4. | In German, for example, accusative case is always overt on arguments with masculine gender.
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| 5. | The masculine gender is also the indeterminate gender as in many other Indo-European languages.
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| 6. | Over time the feminine and masculine genders merged into a " common gender ".
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| 7. | In Kokborok there are four genders : masculine gender, feminine gender, common gender, and neuter gender.
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| 8. | In such cases, one says that the feminine gender is semantically marked, whereas the masculine gender is unmarked.
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| 9. | They feel that the masculine gender variants should be used, even when the professional in question is female.
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| 10. | Male sex is important even for the lowly nematode, a soil worm that can reproduce without the masculine gender.
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