Languages Other Than English
When words have a grammatical gender associated with them, in many languages, there is an absolute requirement for morphological changes to maintain sentence agreement. That is, there is a non-political content to the word changes, or inflection. Nevertheless, gender-identification word endings are sometimes dropped, something that happened often in the former East Germany, for example.
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