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JenGen:
Check this site out  http://www.sourcetext.com/grammarian/index.html, it's an analytical look at the butchering of the English Language at a particular University in New Jersey. It's actually a lot of fun and at the same time, very educational.

Medulin:
I've noticed that many people now use actor instead of actress.
So, which is more discriminating?
For some, calling an actress an actor (as in Julia Roberts is a great actor) is ''masculinization'',
for others it is ''leveling''.

Brazilian president Dilma Rouseff introduced a female form of the word president
(in Portuguese, presidente means ''president'' and gender is indicated with an article:
o presidente [male president], a presidente [female president]).

But, Brazilian president calls herself  ''a presidenta''   (''she-president'', ''presidentess'')
with the feminine gender final morpheme -a).

mkrnhr:
Thanks Medulin for the example. It confirms indeed the above-mentionned article on gender-specific languages.

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