It's by direct analogy with Transalpine and Cisalpine Gaul (Galla Transalpina and Galla Cisalpina), which were named by, you know, Julius Caesar, in one of his most famous writings But I'm sure you know more about Latin grammar than he didhttps://twitter.com/ReginaAtkinson0/status/1290463564499767296 …
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My life was saved by cisplatin. Which has the opposite chirality of transplatin.
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I actually started writing a screenplay in which a freak accident creates a large population of mirrored people, and it was a fun exercise calculating the chirality of various food components and researching the effects of, e.g., consuming l-glucose.
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I happened to be doing cis-trans isomerism in organic chem when I first learned the term "cisgender," and I thought it was really clever!
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I've seen some presentations on the future of the "cislunar economy" that I always think about whenever this topic comes up. Really easy to mentally picture the difference between cislunar vs translunar; and how idiotic it would be to think "cislunar" is an insult to the moon.
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Looking forward to the day when some TERFs complain that baby engineers are trying to hex the moon.
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