[ SECRET POST #2505 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2505 ⌋

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Comments

[gondremark]

A while back I was emailing a friend and we were talking about the use of the asterisk, and every time one of us wrote trans* with the asterisk as an example, we'd add a silly footnote as a payoff. You do not leave footnotes hanging like that, just like you don't leave parentheses open or sentences unfinished.

In linguistics, an asterisk before a word means it's an unattested form. You use it for hypothetical reconstructions of dead languages, or for examples of verb tenses that don't actually exist (the past tense of snow is snowed, not *snew). And so it REALLY bothered me when I found an article explaining how the Boolean asterisk works in "trans**" and gave the examples of the word the asterisk might stand for thus: *gender, *sexual * man, * woman. My mind instantly went to "Are you trying to tell me that "gender" is an unattested English word? Because that is not the case"


*see what I did there?
** second footnote, same page, two asterisks, I'm being obstinate


TL;DR Boolean operators bother me. Fun with footnotes and unattested words!

[nyxelestia]

I mostly just hate the asterisk because it fucks with trying to search for useful information and a lot of tagging systems don't handle it well. And then there's the fact that even though trans and trans* are effectively the same these days and even many trans people oppose the asterisk, many SJWs will jump down your throat for not using it.

I'm confrontational enough that I'd rather just not use it and deal with the consequences as I go (I appear to have developed a reputation for this), but I can see why many people would use it even if they oppose it...SJWs in general can get quite vitriolic, but the trans-centric SJWs are probably the worst - if you're not actively involved with them, then you'll hear from them less often than race or sex centric ones, but when you do they are far, far more hostile and vicious than most other SJW types. -_-