2026-11-06 05:57 UTC
trans is an adjective, you likely wouldn’t say tallwomen
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@Malgas@beehaw.org 2026-11-06 07:00
But ‘trans-’ (and ‘cis-’!) is also a prefix. cf. “transnational”, “transalpine”, “transcranial”, “transcode”, etc. To be clear, I’m not saying we shouldn’t insist on the space, but implying that it would otherwise be malformed or ungrammatical is a bad argument.