From: Doug B. <dou...@gm...> - 2009-10-12 17:26:01
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This was discussed in the past in connection to translating the word "spouse" into languages that have gendered forms for the word: http://www.nabble.com/Gender-translation-td21902634.html However, I don't think we considered "fixing" gramps at that point, even though it was pointed out that "words have gender, but people have sex." In many places in genealogy, we specifically do mean "sex" as we are referring to the role a person plays in the biological relationship to the children. However, in other places, the category could easily be described to refer to a person's gender (eg, the role that they play in society, or even their own family). But, I'm not sure one should use one form over the other "in the interest of precision" unless you pick the term to use based on the details of an individual. In other words, in any given tree, there may be individuals that one could describe their role in the family in terms of either gender or sex, or possibly even both. However, "sex" is probably what we mean most of the time. In any event, if one felt strongly about changing the gramps default term from gender to sex, you could post a Feature Request in the bug tracker [1] to have it changed. Or, you could make it so that your copy of gramps "translated" gender to sex. You'd just need to make a new translation, and translate that single word. -Doug [1] http://www.gramps-project.org/bugs/ |