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Coup Droit


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Ok, so we do a fair bit of linguistic navel-gazing on this site so I thought I would throw out this:

I seem to be the only person who goes for 'qualis' - everyone else (here and on twitter) is a fan of 'qualies'.

Now, I'm not sure if there's a right answer here but my reasoning is:

If qualifications ever gets shortened in the singular (as when being used as an adjective) it is 'quali', not 'qualy'. 

i.e. a quali match, a quali wildcard, whatever.

That seems to be accepted. I've never seen a 'qualy' wildcard. (Although maybe I missed it?)

So, in the same was that 'one taxi, two taxis', to my mind the plural is 'qualis'.

Thoughts ??? (or need to get a life ???)



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Definitely the 'get a life' option................smile



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Coup Droit wrote:

Ok, so we do a fair bit of linguistic navel-gazing on this site so I thought I would throw out this:

I seem to be the only person who goes for 'qualis' - everyone else (here and on twitter) is a fan of 'qualies'.

Now, I'm not sure if there's a right answer here but my reasoning is:

If qualifications ever gets shortened in the singular (as when being used as an adjective) it is 'quali', not 'qualy'. 

i.e. a quali match, a quali wildcard, whatever.

That seems to be accepted. I've never seen a 'qualy' wildcard. (Although maybe I missed it?)

So, in the same was that 'one taxi, two taxis', to my mind the plural is 'qualis'.

Thoughts ??? (or need to get a life ???)

Get a life ? Get a bottle of wine and catch some rays! 



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yes, definitely agree - get a life!

but having said that I prefer qualies which I see clearly. with qualis, I see quails. I quite often get my letters mixed up - a bit dyslexic

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Yes, wine and sunshine sounds like a good option too!!  I have to say, I thought your quali was somehow related to your time in France.........



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The OED says it is qualy and qualies.

I need a

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Coup Droit


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Thanks, guys. This made me laugh.

Point taken - life's too short !!!

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Coup Droit wrote:

Thanks, guys. This made me laugh.

Point taken - life's too short !!!

 I guess you should have qualified your question a bit sooner biggrin 



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I believe the original derivation is Ancent Greek via Medean Aramaic. Thus, the strictly correct form would be, qualoboloi, qualoboses.

However it depends on whether you are talking about the qualifying tournament as a whole, or individual or a plural of matches in said tournament.

In the former case, it should take a gerundative nominative form: qualius, qualia (more than one qualifying tournament)

In the latter case, the logical thing to do is to take a reflexive intransitive approach, and default to: qualiandra, qualiesma

There's always a nerd to bore you with semantics
Hope that helps.

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AliBlahBlah wrote:

I believe the original derivation is Ancent Greek via Medean Aramaic. Thus, the strictly correct form would be, qualoboloi, qualoboses.

However it depends on whether you are talking about the qualifying tournament as a whole, or individual or a plural of matches in said tournament.

In the former case, it should take a gerundative nominative form: qualius, qualia (more than one qualifying tournament)

In the latter case, the logical thing to do is to take a reflexive intransitive approach, and default to: qualiandra, qualiesma

There's always a nerd to bore you with semantics
Hope that helps.

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 I recall in Roman times, the qualifying events for the gladiatorial games were of course the ultimate test - only one winner ultimately survived. And then they had to play or fight seven more times to win. The phrase Grand Slam came from this originally - to be slammed was of course what it means, but to win the whole thing meant you had not only slammed but grand slammed. To lose and hence die in the qualifying rounds has got lost but originally was termed "to be qualied" - or to lose in the qualifiers       



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Qualies for me.

Would've been nice to have a poll!! ;)

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Quality thread 



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Definitely a qualified success.

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How about 'quallies'?

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One of the best threads on here in some time biggrin



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