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[Erik Max Francis]

Steve Hunt wrote:

> Well that's not really what qua means.  It means "in the role of".

And it's one of those fancy Latin words that's only used in very limited
circumstances.  The only uses I've seen are _sine qua non_ ("without
which, not") and _X qua X_ (with X being the same word both before and
after).  The former idiom means something absolutely essential or
indispensable; the latter means X in the explicit role of X.  Like
_cum_, it's one of those Latin words that you only see used in writing
where the writer is trying to sound extra clever :-).

That being said, I think the "Dutchisms" mentioned by the original
poster indicated that he meant the _Dutch_ meaning of _qua_ (and I don't
know _any_ Dutch), not the Latin (and thus English) meaning in the first
place.

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