Quid sit vs Quid est?

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Quis ut Deus
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Quid sit vs Quid est?

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I was on the Grex site and one of the li

" Quid sit Grex noster perhumaniter ac dilucide a sodale Victorio Ciarrocchi Pisaurensi explicatur."

Why didn't they write "Quid est?"

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Re: Quid sit vs Quid est?

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Because it's an indirect/reported question on account of "is explained".
Quià est quaestio obliqua prae "explicatur" verbo principale.
I'm writing in Latin hoping for correction, and not because I'm confident in how I express myself. Latinè scribo ut ab omnibus corrigar, non quod confidenter me exprimam.

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Re: Quid sit vs Quid est?

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Salve Adriane et gratias tibi ago.

Ego hanc rem iam intellego.

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