• jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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    6 months 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.

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      Now I’m curious what a cisformer would be in the context of electrical engineering

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        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.

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          Cisformers
          They’re what meets the eyes
          Cisformers
          Bots not in disguise
          Robobots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of
          The Obviouscons

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          I will start using “cisformer” in place of “wire” from now on, in a similar manner to how we at work sometimes refer to “power aspect negation cycle” for pulling the plug on something and reconnect it.

          Also, I guess a cisistor would be just a regular switch or potentiometer.

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        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).

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      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?