How does one choose a side? By free will of choice. What generates choice? Balance. Where is choice situated in balance? IN-BETWEEN...not on either side, which represents the imbalance of choice.
Holding onto either SIDE distorts ones SIGHT in-between.
Try this...if you stand and lean to either side; then you fall. Why? Because balancing implies ones choice in-between...not ones choice holding onto either side.
Have you ever seen an acrobatic or circus performer do an act where they balance on a board atop some kind of can or cylinder? They balance by putting both feet out to the sides and adjusting as necessary to stay balanced. Your idea of balanced is not engaging in either side, but hopping off entirely. You're not in the middle of a set of binary choices if you reject both sides and make up your own side and hold onto that. Your rejection of the two choices isn't a balanced position.
You've gotta work on your presentation. You say things, but you're not engaging what I say. You don't come across like you understand some kind of deeper meaning to words. If you put in as much effort to learning how to have a conversation as you do into your version of etymology you'd be able to engage people better.
You're not avoiding circular conflict in your mind by following an if > then sequence. A linear progression in nature wraps back around itself in the shape of a spiral. Your attempt at taking words apart to try to dissolve a contradiction is an attempt at logical thinking. You often appeal to the etymology of words, and often link to the etymonline.com website to back up what you say. You're not consistent with your use and appeal to that website. You're creating your own construct of what a word means and end up in the same circularity trap you're trying to avoid. By avoiding taking a side and choosing not to take a side, you create another layer of agree vs disagree and is vs isn't. You're saying your etymology for beast is, and mine isn't. You ended up engaging in exactly what you're trying to avoid.
It's obvious you didn't grasp what was said, and you didn't grasp the phrase what was said either. I didn't utter any sound of those words to you. Did you read it out loud or something like that?
When I said The Great Vowel Shift, this is what I was referring to https://stephaniehuesler.com/2024/11/17/history-undusted-the-great-vowel-shift/. A time period in history where the words changed, as in their spelling. You can give me your opinion of if > then dissection of the etymology, but you've not presented anything worthwhile to interact with.
I didn't say stuffing, I said you're making stuff up through your implications. Instead of dealing with what I wrote, you twist what I said into stuffing and imply something that is far different than what stuff means in the context I said it. Instead of avoiding circularity and helping dissolve the contradiction in the minds of those who cannot think straight, you expose your shortcomings in reading comprehension.
The hidden agenda and deception is found in how you twist the topic through word etymology and what you imply from them. Middle English is the English that was spoken from about 1100 to 1500 AD. Asking what's in the middle of an engl/angle and pulling up the etymology of vertex and what you imply with that, did you grasp what was said? The Great Vowel Shift, you twist it into vow + El which is you making stuff up through your implications.
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=vowel
mid-14c., vouel, "vowel sound, a vowel letter," c. 1300, from Anglo-French vouel, vowel, variants of Old French voieul (Modern French voyelle), from Latin vocalis, in littera vocalis "vocal letter." This is from vox (genitive vocis) "voice" (from PIE root *wekw- "to speak").
One of the open, continuous sounds uttered in human speech, a tone-sound, as opposed, relatively, to a consonant. In prosody, the central or open element of a syllable. Related: Vowellage; vowellish; vowelly.
Vowel shift in reference to the pronunciation change between Middle and Modern English is attested from 1909. The English record-holder for most consecutive vowels in a word is queueing.
The etymology of vowel isn't vow + El. You're making stuff up through your implications.
So you agree with me that the etymology of beast isn't astute being?
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=beast
c. 1200, beste, "one of the lower animals" (opposed to man), especially "a four-footed animal," also "a marvelous creature, a monster" (mermaids, werewolves, lamia, satyrs, the beast of the Apocalypse), "a brutish or stupid man," from Old French beste "animal, wild beast," figuratively "fool, idiot" (11c., Modern French bête), from Vulgar Latin *besta, from Latin bestia "beast, wild animal," which is of unknown origin.
The word was used in Middle English to translate Latin animal. It displaced Old English deor (see deer) as the generic word for "wild creature," only to be ousted 16c. by animal.
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=animal
early 14c., "any sentient living creature" (including humans), from Latin animale "living being, being which breathes," noun use of neuter of animalis (adj.) "animate, living; of the air," from anima "breath, soul; a current of air" (from PIE root *ane- "to breathe;" for sense development, compare deer).
A rare word in English before c. 1600, and not in KJV (1611). Commonly only of non-human creatures. It drove out the older beast in common usage. Used derisively of brutish humans (in which the "animal," or non-rational, non-spiritual nature is ascendant) from 1580s.
The lie and deception is claiming the etymology of BEAST is BEing ASTute.
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=best
Old English beste, reduced by assimilation of -t- from earlier Old English betst "of the highest quality or standing, first, in the best manner." This originally was the superlative of bōt "remedy, reparation" (Middle English bote "advantage, help, profit"), a word now surviving in its simple form only in the expression to boot (see boot (n.2)). Its comparative, better, and superlative, best, have been transferred to good (and in some cases well).
Old English bōt is from Proto-Germanic root *bat-, with comparative *batizon and superlative *batistaz. The superlative form is the source also of Old Frisian, Old Saxon, Middle Dutch best, Old High German bezzist, German best, Old Norse beztr, Gothic batists. Also in Old English as an adverb, "in the most excellent manner."
The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! [Burns, from "To a Mouse, on Turning Her Up in Her Nest With the Plough, November, 1785"] From late Old English as "of greatest advantage, most suitable." Best-seller as short for "best-selling book" is from 1889, apparently originally in the publishing trade; best friend was in Chaucer (late 14c.). Best girl is attested by 1881, American English; best man is 1814, originally Scottish, replacing groomsman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
The Great Vowel Shift was a series of pronunciation changes in the vowels of the English language that took place primarily between 1400 and 1700[1] (the 15th century forming the transition period from Middle English to Early Modern English), beginning in southern England and having influenced effectively all dialects of English today. Through this extensive vowel shift, the pronunciation of all Middle English long vowels altered. Some consonant sounds also changed, specifically becoming silent; the term Great Vowel Shift is occasionally used to include these consonantal changes.[2][3]
The standardization of English spelling began in the 15th and 16th centuries; the Great Vowel Shift is the major reason English spellings now often deviate considerably from how they represent pronunciations.[4]
https://stephaniehuesler.com/2024/11/17/history-undusted-the-great-vowel-shift/
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=astute
"keen in discernment and careful of one's self-interest," 1610s, from Latin astutus "crafty, wary, shrewd; sagacious, expert," from astus "cunning, cleverness, adroitness," which is of uncertain origin. The Romans considered it to be from Greek asty "town," borrowed into Latin and implying city sophistication (see asteism). Related: Astutely; astuteness.
An alternative form is astucious (1823), from French astucieux, from Latin astutia "astuteness." Also formerly astucity.
If you want to dissect what the etymology of BEAST means, you're going to need to go back to the word beste, and not introduce your personal interpretation that it comes from being BEing ASTute. The word changed from beste to beast during the time of what's called the Great Vowel Shift.
The etymology of beast isn't astute being lol. You're making crap up.
Di (short for die) latus (alternate spelling of lettuce) implies eating lettuce.
To aka T (short form of tea) + o (short form of ow) implies towing, which allows the lettuce to be towed by the hand towards to the mouth where it dies and is consumed.
Pro (approval) imp (form of gremlin) lies (action of telling falsehood) implies approval of lying gremlins. Website link implies web (chaos) + site (location) + link (joining together) implies the coming together of chaos at a specific site to produce information. In (in) form (anti chaos) ation (short for ration) implies a small form of chaos coming together to produce a morsel of knowledge.
Gate implies gay (homosexual) ate (the past tense of eat) implying a place where homosexuals gather to eat.
Surrogate aka surround aka circle + gay (homosexual) + ate (past tense of eat) implies a circular table at which homosexuals eat.
Im (short for I am) plica (Philippino bread) aka you are bread. You description of Im + plica ignores bread which feeds imps so that they can lie.
Now look at the etymology of Im (short for I am) + phyein (Japanese for manure) aka you are manure. Manure used to fertilize the wheat to make the bread to consume to produce action for the imp to lies down.
Issue (magazine edition) + is (short for isis the Greek goddess) taking the gift of Isis for your own profit in magazine production. Pro (professional) duction (ducks in action) aka implies you are a professional duck in action to profit on magazines about Isis.
Di (apart) latus (wide). To make wider.
Pro (professional) anti (against) imp (small mythical demon) lies (to deceive) of (contracted form of off) move (motion) ment (moment). Moment of motion where professionals against imps lie.
Furthermore... surro (surround) gate (entrance) entrance into life from the gate of another. Custody (guardian) implies guarding freedom.
Consent aka con (to deceive) sent (the act of going). Consent is deceiving someone. Inverts aka in (within) verts (vertical structures at a skate park).
That implies taking judgement upon self and passing it onto another while ignoring "judge not; lest ye be judged".
Implies aka imp (small mythical demon) lies (to lay down) implies a demon resting (cessation of a movement). Judgement aka judge (to give) ment (gift). When you pass the resting imp to another you judge them a ment.
I'm not answering your questions when you don't answer mine except to ignore and twist into a soap box to preach your ramblings at me.