Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Vadim Cherny" <VadimCherny AT mail.ru>]

Michael's counterexample was difficult, but I can offer a reading:

generic: "What do you seek?"

I suggest a very polite question, Russian future tense "Что изволите?" "What 
would you want?"
mvksh infrequently has this secondary sense of "seek" - to want.
"would" is not strictly future tense in English (though related to "will"), 
but both Hebrew and Russian use future tense for such turn.

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On 20/09/2005 00:33, Dr. Joel M. Hoffman wrote:

> ...
>
>>Ps. a "chocoholic" may actually be an addict, as the sugar
>>
>>
>
>Yes, a chocoholic might be addicted to sugar, but "chocoholic" doesn't
>mean "addicted to sugar."  A chocoholic might be 6-feet tall, but
>"chocoholic" doesn't mean "6-feet tall."  "Chocoholic" means "someone
>who likes chocolate."
>
>

It means more than that. See http://www.answers.com/chocoholic&rg:

from the American Heritage Dictionary?

> A person who craves chocolate.


from Wikipedia:

> A Chocoholic is some who is or claims to be addicted to chocolate.


On these definitions, I am not a chocoholic (I think), just "someone who
likes chocolate."

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