Timeline for What are representative examples of exaggerated simile like “I never in a million years thought I’d see this.”?
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| Nov 16, 2012 at 5:28 | history | edited | tchrist♦ |
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| Nov 13, 2011 at 21:02 | comment | added | Yoichi Oishi | @Mitch.I forgot to place original numbers. They’re 3,000 jo (丈) of gray hair, 10,000 koku (石) of tears, and 10,000 ri (里) of the Great Wall. | |
| Nov 13, 2011 at 6:53 | comment | added | Yoichi Oishi | @Mitch.According to Kojien-(広辞苑)Japanese Language Dictionary, in old Chinese measurements, 1丈(1 jo) is approximate 3-meter long. 1石 (1 koku) equals 180 litters. 1里 ( 1 ri) is 3.9273 kilo meters. I worked out the above numbers based on these units (all units read in Japanese pronunciation). | |
| Nov 12, 2011 at 20:20 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/135451909275402240 | ||
| Nov 12, 2011 at 15:33 | answer | added | Karl Knechtel | timeline score: 8 | |
| Nov 12, 2011 at 14:15 | comment | added | Mitch | What are the numbers in the original, not the computed units? | |
| Nov 12, 2011 at 13:40 | history | edited | Yoichi Oishi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 12, 2011 at 13:10 | history | asked | Yoichi Oishi | CC BY-SA 3.0 |