Imagine a small village near a valley, so isolated that they just call themselves “the people.” One day they find out about another village on the other side of the valley, and they start calling them “the people across the valley.” They can keep talking about “the people,” but sometimes they need to make a distinction: right now, we’re talking about the people on *this* side of the valley, not the people on both sides. Not incidentally, the Latin prefixes for “this side of” and “the other side of” are cis- and trans-...
https://hyperborea.org/journal/2023/06/cis/
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