He explains grammatical gender by saying that masculine or feminine gender was " ascribed ", either randomly or by some consensus ( " seu licenter seu decenter " ), to some entities which lack natural gender.
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Thus, for both generic and non-generic antecedents, the natural gender of the antecedent, whether known or unknown, is irrelevant, as the deciding factor for the choice of a referring pronoun is the grammatical gender of the antecedent.
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New York-based Human Rights in China estimates that 500, 000 infant girls, or about 5 percent of those who should be born every year based on natural gender ratios, cannot be accounted for because of infanticide, abandonment and abortions.
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Additionally, the terms " common gender " and " epicene gender " are used to classify ways in which grammatical gender interacts ( or not ) with " natural gender " ( the sex of a person or animal ).
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Malay does not make use of grammatical gender, and there are only a few words that use natural gender; the same word is used for " he " and " she " or for " his " and " her ".
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In languages such as English that distinguish natural gender in pronouns but not grammatical gender in nouns, normally masculine, but sometimes feminine, forms of pronouns are used for the generic reference, in what is called the " generic " usage of the pronoun.
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As early as 1795, dissatisfaction with this convention led to calls for gender-neutral pronouns, and attempts to invent pronouns for this purpose date back to at least 1850, although the use of singular " they " as a natural gender-neutral pronoun in English is much older.
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Danish and Swedish have no such vestiges, since they unlike Dutch and German do not use the same pronouns for objects and people, but like English have " natural gender " personal pronouns for people, and separate " grammatical gender " pronouns for objects and animals.
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:Since English does not have grammatical gender, only sex ( i . e ., natural gender ), and " hair " is not a feminine noun, I agree that it does not make sense to say " blonde hair ", whether the hair belongs to a female or male person.
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From that time forward, English had a so-called " natural gender " system, in which in the great majority of cases the pronouns " he ", " she ", and " it " were used according to the biological sex ( or lack thereof ) of what they referred to.
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