Re: New Front Desk members
[GAR! Why am I responding to this thread?]
On Tue, 01 Feb 2005, Chris Waters wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 12:58:17PM +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo wrote:
> > By the way. Could we please use "gender" in db.debian.org?
>
> As long as we're on the topic of language and usage, I should point
> out that gender is properly a property of words. People don't have
> gender - people have sex (if you'll pardon the double-entendre).
People can have gender. To wit:
Gender \Gen"der\, n.
[...]
1. Kind; sort. [Obs.] ``One gender of herbs.'' --Shak.
2. Sex, male or female. [Obs. or Colloq.]
3. (Gram.) A classification of nouns, primarily according to
sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed
quality associated with sex.
The word 'sex' has many more connotations than the mere property of
being male or female.
Don Armstrong
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