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09/09/2008 12:57:12
 
 
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08/09/2008 11:20:51
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
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Politics
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Title:
Miscellaneous
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01333768
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kuda - "where to" as a single word.

If you don't know the archaic English words: whither, hither, thither, whence, hence, thence then you're in for a treat

bolesnik - the afflicted?

inostranstvo - just "abroad" covers that

kvar - glitch?

kvocka - rooster?

najesti se - stuff oneself

obuti se - to shoe. When one wears footwear one is "shod".

podatak - I use datum and data and sod those who don't understand.

More when I next get a chance and/or inclination

>>>>>But this is the usage of "what" to mean quality, not identity or definition. "what am I again?" - "you're mad". I brought this up because last time we discussed this someone (you, Alan or someone else) pointed out that that usage is simply not in use, or something to that effect. So, my question is - does this usage of "what" fall under regular ones, or is it just... the workaround for the lack of word which would mean "kakav"?
>
>>>My question was whether the usage as in the example I found was correct or not.
>>
>>As I recall it's ho2 one would say the expression.
>
>So, "what" can mean both "give me a definition of", "give me a classification of", "give me the role/importance/etc of", i.e. any other noun that's representative of the object, but can also mean "give me the quality/property of".
>
>Found a nice example for the latter in Morton-Benson's dictionary. Asked "what is the weather", nobody responds with a definition ("it's a natural phenomenon studied in meteorology", or any other "it is a ..."), but with quality ("nice", "sunny", "rainy", "windy" etc). So, I agree to conclude that both usages are regular.
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
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