Talk:straight

not funny; (U.S.) not discounted
not intended to be funny or unconventional playing both straight and comic roles

(U.S.) not sold at a reduced price regardless of how many are bought Microsoft® Encarta® 2009 --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:25, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

RFV discussion: March 2020
Rfv-sense "(obsolete, rare) Strait; narrow." Tagged by someone at some point by never listed. The only citation is apparently from 1360. If attested, should perhaps be in a different (new) etymology section as probably a variant of strait. - -sche (discuss) 20:44, 3 March 2020 (UTC)


 * cited. Given its similarity to the fashion sense, perhaps the entry should be rearranged to put them together. Kiwima (talk) 00:00, 4 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Impressive. I've removed the 'obsolete' tag, since your cites extent into the modern period. Is it your impression that the sense is now mostly found in / discussions of that narrow gate parable, or was that just an artifact of searching? - -sche (discuss) 09:53, 4 March 2020 (UTC)
 * It is my impression that modern use of the "narrow" sense is mostly (probably entirely) in Christian theology, and springs largely from the narrow gate passage in Mark. When you get to older texts (e.g. the 1814 quote), it is used more broadly. Kiwima (talk) 10:16, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 21:15, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Cisgender
Earlier in the month, the definition was changed from "heterosexual, attracted to people of the opposite sex" to "heterosexual, cisgender, i.e. not LGBT", and then mostly changed back to what it had been (which is good). If attested, "cisgender" would be a separate sense and not just an element of the sense "heterosexual", I'd say, but whether it's attested is unclear: I have known people who used "cis" where they meant "straight", and vice versa, but I think they were just ineptly misusing / mixing up the words (but I guess that would still "count", if durably archived; cf Talk:Java). - -sche (discuss) 13:15, 17 August 2021 (UTC)