The excellent on-screen display of italics, superscripts and subscripts, and other niceties available on the color screen now display on mono monitors, but with the inherently superior text font of the mono mode. 1985, PC Mag, volume 4, number 4, page 125:
(abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, not-comparable) Clipping of monosexual.
People who do wish to be recognizable as trans or bi are often coercively passed off as cis or mono anyway. 2013, Shiri Eisner, Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution, →ISBN:
That is, establishing as it does a replacement binary (mono versus bi, rather than hetero versus homo) it functions to erase lesbian and gay specificity. In turn, this fails to consider, and even elides, important structural inequities between the hetero- and homosexual categories. The difficulty of establishing bisexual legitimacy in a discursive context of oppositional categories was acknowledged by a number of participants. For some, invoking the mono/bi dichotomy affords bisexuality [...] 2013, Dawn Atkins, Bisexual Women in the Twenty-First Century, →ISBN, page 37:
ru монофони́ческий (having only a single audio channel) · fi mono (having only a single audio channel) · es mono (having only a single audio channel) · sv mono (having only a single audio channel) · ja モノ (having only a single audio channel) · ru мо́но (having only a single audio channel) · pt mono (having only a single audio channel) · fr mono (having only a single audio channel) · fi monofoninen (having only a single audio channel) · cmn 單聲道 /单声道 (having only a single audio channel)
For some monos, there are no acceptable mono—poly solutions as far as they are concerned. 2010, Leonie Linssen, Love Unlimited: The Joys and Challenges of Open Relationships: