Hijacking this for a personal question; how do you all pronounce “cis”? I’ve always assumed it sounded like sister, sis. But I’ve heard it pronounced kiss as well.
It’s pronounced as in “sis”. It’s an existing prefix, that has been used in technical terms to mean “on the same side” long before it came colloquial for AFAB Women/AMAB Men, and that is the correct pronunciation (same goes for the prefix trans, which is the antonym to cis, e.g. trans-fats and cis-fats)
People who pronounce it kiss do so because they were introduced to the word in written form, and had to guess/intuit how it’s pronounced based on spelling.
Hijacking this for a personal question; how do you all pronounce “cis”? I’ve always assumed it sounded like sister, sis. But I’ve heard it pronounced kiss as well.
WHAT? NOOO 😭
You’re joking right? That’s some GIF/JIF stuff right here 😭😭😭
You’re right, it is sis, just like sister.
True but kiss man doesn’t sound half bad either 👀
I’ll add it to the list of funny gender stuff that could annoy people alongside m’theydy.
I was already on edge with the hard K sound being implied, but now you have to bring up GIF/JIF?!?!
You monster!
english needs to go back to fucking runes until you people get that shit right.
Did no one do high school-level chemistry? Cis/trans isomers?
It’s pronounced as in “sis”. It’s an existing prefix, that has been used in technical terms to mean “on the same side” long before it came colloquial for AFAB Women/AMAB Men, and that is the correct pronunciation (same goes for the prefix trans, which is the antonym to cis, e.g. trans-fats and cis-fats)
People who pronounce it kiss do so because they were introduced to the word in written form, and had to guess/intuit how it’s pronounced based on spelling.