My first thought was "If 'Bassai Dai' means 'storming of the castle' and 'dai' greater, then 'bassai' must mean 'nearly storming a castle but not quite'. Wow, those people had a word for *everything*"
But then I read the rest of the paragraph and got it.
Hmmm. Of course, it's presumably more of a mnemonic than a definition.
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Date: 2005-07-14 01:37 pm (UTC)But then I read the rest of the paragraph and got it.
Hmmm. Of course, it's presumably more of a mnemonic than a definition.