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The Art of "Just Asking Questions" questioned:

Questions may be posited as either Closed-questions (yes/no; milk&/orsugar?) that indicate only one of two answers is correct, the other incorrect; or, Open-questioning as any other type of question, that is possibly a 'complete' sentence and has individual word meanings inside/outside mind, perhaps on each and every occasion of usage that expects intends toward an desired answer from to between (social media discourse).

Many questions/answers incomplete discourses all at once in the mind while altering pitch/tone etc. with remarkable ease considering or perhaps because of, the request for answers to questions that bear on ordinary and extra-ordinary lives, such as ours' reading/writing/hearing/sensing these words, this language, shaping the media discourse inevitably. In considering trans-gender and/or trans-sexual questions' shaping directly especially through social media, etymology is useful.

The article The Art of Just asking Questions" in regards of transgender sex/gender leads me to consider why we use the term 'person' (human individual) so often as if it means per- as in 'each' and 'son' as in male child (son: meaning birth-sound) meaning all human individuals including otherwise female child or 'daughter' (also meaning: suckling-sound).

Etymology selected-by:this user malcolm stow cut&pastealtered(f)rom Google A.!:presumably parsing every etymology dictionary every use and every nano-particle of the internet:

Person: 'The word entered English via Old French (parsone, persoun) and retained the core meaning of individual human.'

Sex: 'The word "sex" originates from the Latin word sexus, meaning "a sex, state of being either male or female, gender". Sexus itself is believed to come from the Proto-Indo-European root sek-, meaning "to cut" or "to divide".

Latin sexus: This is the direct source of the English word "sex" and has the core meaning of "gender" or "the state of being male or female".

Proto-Indo-European sek-:This root is thought to be the origin of sexus, and it signifies "to cut" or "to divide".

Meaning Shift:

The idea of "cutting" or "division" likely evolved into a specific division into male and female categories within a (human) species.

French Influence:

The word "sex" also entered English through French, further solidifying its presence and usage.

sex - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Etymology 1. From Middle English sexe (“gender”), from Old French sexe (“genitals; gender”), from Latin sexus (“gender; gender tra...

Wiktionary, the free dictionary

What is the origin for the act of "sex" and definition?

10 Oct 2018

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sex, n.¹ meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary

Where does the noun sex come from? Earliest known use. The earliest known use of the noun sex is in the Middle English period (115...

Oxford English Dictionary.'

Gender: 'Late Middle English: from Old French gendre (modern genre ), based on Latin genus ‘birth, family, nation’. The earliest meanings were ‘kind, sort, genus’ and ‘type or class of noun, etc.’ (which was also a sense of Latin genus).'

Male: '...masculus male spelling later shifted to "female" to align with "male," there is no etymological connection between the two words.'

(Fe-Male Feminus also means suckling Indo-European proto-Latin. otherwise Iron-Man.)

Woman: 'The word "woman" originates from the Old English compound "wifmann," meaning "female person". "Wīf" in Old English meant "woman" or "female," and "mann" meant "person" or "human being".

Man:'The English word "man" ultimately derives from a Proto-Indo-European root that is also the origin of the Sanskrit word manu (मनु), which means "thinking creature" and refers to the progenitor of humankind.'

Humankind:'The English word humankind emerged in the early 16th century and is formed by combining the adjective human with the noun kind.' (kind-noun?)

Human: 'The adjective "human" itself comes from the Latin humanus, meaning "of man, human", while the noun "kind" refers to a sort or class of things.')

This is the A.I. information <accurate>on/off indicating for me anyway, that the word:

M/man: re-lates to all People where a People re-lates to a Species shared...

Ask about People.

Ask the correct open/closed question get the correct open/closed answer(s...

'Correct': itself could be 'True.' or '...appropriate...' or 'Most(-to-least <N/n>)-referenced:' for:ex-ample: and many more...

Language shaping socialmedia discourse, all of it, is fluid, although as all languages made-up-of: spits and looks, smells and better<>entertainments trying to uncover:

The Art of: 'just' asking question:s'...internal/external meaning(s...) and/or only-one correct 'just' answer':'Etymology

1. From Middle English juste, from Old French juste, from Latin iūstus (“just, lawful, rightful, true, due, proper, moderate”), from Proto-Italic *jowestos, related to Latin iūs (“law, right”); ultimately from Proto-Indo-European.'

'The word “just” is often used to indicate fairness or impartiality. It suggests something that is precisely correct or perfectly aligned with what is expected or desired. Additionally, it can imply immediacy or a recent occurrence...also, 'just' mainly functions as an adjective and an adverb.

' 'Only', on the other hand, only indicates something exclusive and it can be an adverb, an adjective, and conjunction.'

Only/Just?' So, there are many ways to peel an onion, not least by using A.I. copy&paste and if this 'method' is not seen as enough catagory switches may be made <more>less.

Etymology is however a useful and in this case quick method of coming to interesting conclusions (?I will leave that up to you, dear reader) that assist in a pragmatic way to conduct in everyday ordinary life, use of 'language' such as asking open questions, and not, as here, answering them yourself as of another, in reply:

This is one-way to peel an onion, possibly, probably never to be read re-peated. So, it would seem that the discourse that claims the most of the internet is the winner, losers, the rest of us. Truth Social. All the time losing-out by trying to better data<>data A.I.? Am I? ABCD? Now? or then?...

So; as for philosophical calculations, mathematical ponderings, artful artistry and etymologic use of language shapes the social media discourse textually by a ratio of repeated words and singular library topic(s... mixed pragmatically to get through life. A.I. anwers?:Dr.Google!!!

'"Transgender" and "transsexual" are related terms describing people whose gender identity differs from their sex assigned at birth, but they have distinct meanings. Transgender is an umbrella term encompassing various gender identities that differ from the assigned sex, while transsexual is a more specific term often used for individuals who desire to transition to the gender they identify with, potentially through medical interventions like hormone therapy or surgery.'

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This is really interesting! Maybe you could make it a substack article.

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