Re: Comparison of sentences

Hi,

From: "Eldin Raigmore" <eldin_raigmore@...>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 9:02 PM

> I would say that the problem is that a time cannot be
> longer than the day
> having hours.  The original English sentence is
> poorly-posed.
>
> Do you want to translate something like:
> "the time (during which I sat at my desk)"
> "was longer than"
> "the time (during which the day has hours)"?
>
> If so, you must have sat at your desk from sometime during
> Egypt's Old
> Kingdom.
Um ... it's a hyperbole as I understand it. Of course it is
physically impossible to sit at a desk for a span of time
far longer than a day, but in this case it's an intentional
exaggeration to emphasise that it has taken enormously long
to do the work -- longer than the day has hours.

Yours,
Carsten

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