[ SECRET POST #3067 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3067 ⌋

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Comments

[kamino_neko]

'Transhuman' is not a good coinage for this, as it's an established word, with an established meaning, that means something very different from your meaning.

[(Anonymous)]

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True. Perhaps I should have put an asterisk in to distinguish it.

(But on the other hand, the established word transhuman doesn't make sense as a word. Shouldn't the word following the trans* prefix be what it is becoming, not what it appeared to be in the past?)

[kamino_neko]

Shouldn't the word following the trans* prefix be what it is becoming, not what it appeared to be in the past?

Only for transman/transwoman (and any other possible coinages that aren't coming to my mind). They were coined as specifications of what one's gender is, while still specifying that one is transgender (for situations when that is meaningful).

Transhuman, however, shares its etymology with transgender/transsexual. And Transylvania. And transportation. And... Well, you get the point.

'Trans' (outside of the cases of transman/transwoman) means 'across', 'away from', 'beyond', and various other related meanings.

A transhuman is someone who has moved away from/gone beyond their humanity.

Someone who is transgender is a gender other than ('away from') the one they were assigned at birth.

To sum up transman/transwoman were coined from the English terms transsexual and transgender. Transgender and transhuman were both coined from the latin word 'trāns'. And due to the specific meaning they were needed to convey, transman/transwoman ended up with different meanings than they would have had had they been coined independently directly from the Latin.