incandescentq replied to your post: It’s sort of a random question, but do you know what the “*” in trans* stands for? Google and Wikipedia aren’t helpful. Also, keep being awesome, Liz c:
Google and Wikipedia wouldn’t help because * is the wildcard character in much of search, programming, and code-writing. “R*” is all words starting with R, “*ed” is all words ending in ed, and “trans*” is all words starting with trans.
ah yeah that is the linguistic reason for that word to look the way it does, as well! here you go, anon~~~