Thursday, June 18, 2015

Trans People Oppose, Cis People Are Together


The narrator of the Kahn Academy video makes two errors: Entgegen, synonymous with trans, means opposed or against in German and it's pronounced ent-GEgen (not ENT-gegen). Zusammen, synonymous with cis, means together.

4 comments:

JAL said...

Chip -- these days words mean anything anyone wants it to mean. (But usually I think Kahn tries to be stay away from that ...)

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I think you got Chip mixed up with chickelit.

But, your point is well taken.

ricpic said...

Cisgender. A completely superfluous word. If you're male you're male. No need to be labeled a cisgender male. The fact that liberals want to deconstruct reality doesn't mean that reality can be deconstructed.

bagoh20 said...

To describe our new world where known lies are accepted and the most serious crime is wrong opinion, we need a new word for the practice of lying. "Transrealism" is already a thing, so maybe "transverity" to describe lying that we just accept, because the truth is such a stuffy obstructionist concept.