• @jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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    721 month ago

    When you have a trans-something you have cis-something. It’s how language works.

    The only way for cisgender to be a slur is if you consider transgender a slur too.

      • @jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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        291 month ago

        Ok let me rephrase for pedantic people, adjectives with trans prefix have a correspondent cis adjective.

        And an electrical cisformer would be something that would keep energy inside the same circuit at roughly the same voltage, so basically a wire. Feel free to use the term if you want to oversell something.

      • @hperrin@lemmy.world
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        21 month ago

        A cisformer would just be a conductor (like a wire). It takes a current/voltage on one side, and gives you the same current/voltage on the other side.

        Now if we’re talking about the big robots that turn into cars, a cisformer would be a car that turns into the same car (so just any car).

    • @vithigar@lemmy.ca
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      21 month ago

      You could construct a cis- form of the word, but it’s not always going to be useful, or even sensible.

      Cismit? Cisaction? Cislate? Cisportation?