Timeline for Expressing long distance poetically
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| May 13, 2017 at 12:52 | comment | added | Luke Sawczak♦ | Interestingly enough, the "leagues" that @TeleportingGoat mentions would have a similar value in English. "He was leagues and leagues away from her." The archaicness/uncertain measure might actually help with the romance. | |
| May 12, 2017 at 23:57 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO nous est hostile' | Yes, this. A French speaker may or may not know exactly how much a lieue is, but they'd know it's a large distance, and it's often used in this way to say that something is far away. | |
| May 12, 2017 at 21:59 | comment | added | Teleporting Goat | Lieue is "League" in English. | |
| May 12, 2017 at 10:34 | history | answered | Cédric Van Rompay | CC BY-SA 3.0 |