I finally said, “You know, HIV is transmittable by good old-fashioned, red-blooded, hetero-normative, married sex.”
No savant now denies the transmittable taint of insanity and consumption.
But 'desertion' is a pattern of action, not a transmittable determinant.
We don't know what is a transmittable determinant until after it's happened.
And another way to the soul only—rare, untransferable to words, and therefore not transmittable to others or to the reason.
transmit trans·mit (trāns-mĭt', trānz-)
v. trans·mit·ted, trans·mit·ting, trans·mits
To send from one person, thing, or place to another; convey.
To cause to spread; pass on.
To impart or convey to others by heredity or inheritance; hand down.