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Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 1 day agoSo 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.
azi@mander.xyz 14 hours ago
there’s a myriad of phrases like that
m0darn@lemmy.ca 10 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.
_g_be@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Yeah, a ton