    Sentence 1: In recent decades, certain chan,  have taken place in the language that rej  voluntary choices of the words used. to  characterize people; these have focused largely on  the conscious and conscientious substitution of  neutral, sexless words like individual(s), person ,  onal people for terms that normally denote only  males.    Sentence 2: Over some years in the near past  there have been a voluntary, deliberate change in  word choices.