Báo Dân trí: Watson-Marlow nâng cao hiệu quả sản xuất bia với các giải pháp bơm vệ sinh tiên tiến (Dân trí) - Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions (WMFTS), tập đoàn hàng đầu toàn cầu về bơm nhu động và công nghệ đường dẫn chất lỏng, giới thiệu danh mục sản phẩm bơm nhu động và bơm hình sin giú ... Watson-Marlow nâng cao hiệu quả sản xuất bia với các giải pháp bơm vệ sinh tiên tiến Qua (not to be confused with the ablative feminine form of qui) is a Latin adverb meaning "where; by which route". Read it as "as" when you read it.
Use it in scholarly or legal writing to refer to a specific role or conceptual category for an entity that could have more than one role/conceptual category. E.g., All that is necessary is, that the arbiter, in the free exercise of his discretion ... Qua can usually be read as the word "as". It is an occasionally useful (and rarely used) link-word in English.
qua watson, I was just reading about qua in Fowler's (incl. the 3rd ed by Burchfield) a couple of days ago. Says Fowler: "The real occasion for the use of qua occurs when a person or thing spoken of can be regarded from more than one point of view or as the holder of various coexistent functions ... How is the word "qua" used? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange It's hard to find a fundamental difference in how "X qua X" and "X simpliciter" are used.
qua watson, There might be differences in connotation though, with qua suggesting something has multiple aspects and can be considered qua multiple things, while simpliciter means simply. In mathematics, quadratic means "involving the second and no higher power of an unknown quantity or variable". But the prefix quad- usually describes something that has to do with four, such as qua...
