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⌈ Secret Post #2542 ⌋

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Comments

Pronunciation

[(Anonymous)]

Is "cis" pronounced "siss" or "C-I-S"? I have a coworker who pronounces it the second way, and I think she's wrong. (Because "cis" and "trans" are opposites, and you don't say "T-R-A-N-S").

Re: Pronunciation

[vethica]

It's "siss".

Re: Pronunciation

[(Anonymous)]

"sis" as in "sister"
I have never heard it pronounced any other way.

Re: Pronunciation

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I hadn't either. My coworker...bless her heart, she's a churchgoing woman who is working with me in an HIV/AIDS therapy company. She's working her way into community outreach and coming across all sorts of concepts that are new to her. But she loves going to the local HIV/AIDS charities because the workers tend to give a lot of hugs. =)

CRIME INVESTIGATION SCENE: MIAMI

[(Anonymous)]

Kind of curious how she got the idea it's "C-I-S", since it's not short for anything, nor is it all-caps, which is the only way I can think of for someone to assume it is short for something.

Re: CRIME INVESTIGATION SCENE: MIAMI

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

It might be because she's only seen it in print?

Re: CRIME INVESTIGATION SCENE: MIAMI

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Right, that was my point -- there's no indication, in print, that it would be said as separate letters, at least that I could see. I think the tendency would be to say it as a word (whether "siss" or, incorrectly, "kiss"), rather than as an initialism.

Re: CRIME INVESTIGATION SCENE: MIAMI

[(Anonymous)]

sa

Ah, I can see how, if one's only seen it in an abbreviation-heavy context, one could think it's spelled out (I first saw it in use in a chemistry context).

Re: CRIME INVESTIGATION SCENE: MIAMI

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I have seen it capitalized in print, at times, but only in this specific context.

Re: CRIME INVESTIGATION SCENE: MIAMI

[(Anonymous)]

Ayrt

Huh... Do the same people who write "CIS" also write "TRANS"? And is there any indication why? Sorry for all the questions; this is just, to me, really odd but kind of fascinating. Because ime it seems like word capitalization changes go the other way (eg, SCUBA).

Re: CRIME INVESTIGATION SCENE: MIAMI

[caerbannog]

I thought it was c-i-s (until now). I guess because I always see it in written discussions with lgbt and various other acronyms and just...assumed it was another acronym.

Re: CRIME INVESTIGATION SCENE: MIAMI

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Ahh! Ok, I can see that.

Re: CRIME INVESTIGATION SCENE: MIAMI

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

presumably the same way my uncle thought that anime was pronounced "aneem" - reading about it a little without being really familiar with it in any meaningful way.

he was really, really insistent about it too.

Re: Pronunciation

[(Anonymous)]

It's pronounced "scum."

Re: Pronunciation

[(Anonymous)]

Don't forget the het prefix!

Re: Pronunciation

[(Anonymous)]

And remember to mention if the person is white.

Re: Pronunciation

[(Anonymous)]

According to Wikipedia:

The terms cis and trans are from Latin, in which cis means "on the same side" and trans means "on the other side" or "across". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cis-trans_isomerism)

So if we want to get super-technical, I think "cis" would be pronounced like "chiss" (I never took Latin, I'm just guessing based on what I know of Latin pronunciation).

But in all seriousness, it's pronounced "siss."

Re: Pronunciation

[(Anonymous)]

Fun fact about Latin: for a lot of Latin words still in use, we don't actually know the correct pronunciation anymore. People have just tried to extrapolate from Italian and there are huge debates in academic circles as to how they think it would have sounded.

Source: my Latin 101 course.

Re: Pronunciation

[hlagol]

fuck. I've been pronouncing it "size" this whole time.