Re:She tried 960 times
by kijinbear on Sunday September 05, 2010 @01:57AM
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More like acronyms, I'd say. For example, "HTTP" = hyper-text transfer protocol.
It's funny that the word 사자성어 (meaning: 4-character idiom) is itself a 4-character idiom. East Asians like 4-character groups so much, they even read numbers in groups of 4 digits. For example, 1,234,567,890 would be read 12 억 3456 만 7890.
Re:She tried 960 times
by analyst74 on Sunday September 05, 2010 @02:04PM
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Although 4 is considered unlucky in Chinese, decimal numbers is represented in 4-number groups, instead of 60 thousand, we'd have 6 wan, 800 million would be 8 yi, etc
It's funny that the word 사자성어 (meaning: 4-character idiom) is itself a 4-character idiom. East Asians like 4-character groups so much, they even read numbers in groups of 4 digits. For example, 1,234,567,890 would be read 12 억 3456 만 7890.