Timeline for How to do basic similes (comparisons) in Chinese?
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| Nov 1, 2022 at 6:40 | comment | added | Pedroski | Would you really only say: "My two ice-cold hands." or "Her snow-white skin." ?? Does that not seem a tad unfinished to you? English is Germanic! | |
| Nov 1, 2022 at 5:35 | comment | added | Wayne Cheah | Maybe he meant Germanic grammar? He did not say English grammar? :) | |
| Nov 1, 2022 at 5:09 | comment | added | Stumpy Joe Pete | I mean, the "unfettered by the axioms of Western Grammar" part at the end seems overblown. "Ice-cold hands" and "snow-white skin" are just as grammatical and idiomatic in English. | |
| Oct 31, 2022 at 23:35 | history | answered | Pedroski | CC BY-SA 4.0 |