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In gendered speech
 
  a. one must use the same gendered nouns, pronouns, and adjectives in order to be understood.
  b. one refers to the gender of the person to whom they are speaking, not impersonal objects.
  c. one is concerned with saving face.
  d. one decides which form to use based on their own ideas of what is masculine and feminine.
  e. cultures ignore the rules of syntax.

Question 2

One major difference between Canadian and American speech and some Asian cultures is
 
  a. Direct versus indirectness.
  b. The use of free versus bound morphemes.
  c. Gendered speech versus non-gendered speech.
  d. One is synchronic, while the other is diachronic in nature.
  e. There are no differences.



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