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So in Chinese traditions “10000” is just a stand in for “really big number”. Kind of like how, at least here in the states, well say “there’s a million of them”. Not that there is literally 1,000,000 of the thing, but more there is just a lot of them.

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azi@mander.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
there’s a myriad of phrases like that

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- m0darn@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Just to spell it out for people: myriad means 10,000 but has been used as a stand in for “huge variety” for so long that people don’t know that anymore.
  
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- _g_be@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yeah, a ton
  
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