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Originally Posted by loveskyliemole
People who are able to speak English can be very popular in Japan anyway.
I am not a very beautiful one, but a few Japanese guys asked me out when they found out I speak English. I don't know if there are a lot of them, but I can say there are quite a few.
Sorry,
I used "quite a few", but I don't really know if it's a right word,
I am confused about "the quantity".
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The right words to use here would be "more than a few". They describe a quantity of something (in this case English-speaking Japanese women) that adds up to a number that is not small (for example, seven) , but does not add up to a number that is large (for example, fifty).
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which is more "a lot" and "lots"?
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It can depend heavily on context. Generally speaking, "lots" is more than "a lot". "Lots" can be described as the plural form of "a lot"
"A lot", perhaps because it has a meaning of an amount of items that is unknown to the speaker but still is more than "many"
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"quite a few" "a few" "some"...
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In order by my guessing: "quite a few", "some", and "a few". Numerically, it could represent items with amounts of: 8, 5, and 3. Not those exact numbers as I just listed them for comparison.
Indeed.
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What does " to each their own" mean?
I couldn't find "each" as a verb in my dictionary.
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"Each" is most often used to describe individual items in a group, but it is not used in that way in the sentence.
"To each their own" is a saying that means "Everyone does/feels according to what makes the most sense to them." In context, StripMahjong is saying that boys who use makeup are not judged strange in his view (please feel free to correct me, Strip) as long as what they are doing is something they like doing and experiencing.