Timeline for Shouldn't this phrase using だけのこと mean "just for that"?
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| Apr 21, 2014 at 6:40 | vote | accept | Questioner | ||
| May 5, 2012 at 8:18 | comment | added | Flaw♦ | +1 for underlying mechanism instead of derived meaning. | |
| Jul 17, 2011 at 15:59 | comment | added | Tsuyoshi Ito | @DaveMG: I am fine that you did not choose my answer as accepted answer, but I just want to clarify that I know that “There was something to the extent that I went to Japan” is not even English. If you followed the logic up to that point, you would know what it means. If you did not follow the logic, that means that I did not explain the logic well (but at least I tried). Coming up with a nice English translation which has some flavor of the literal meaning of the original Japanese expression is not the purpose of my answer. | |
| Jul 15, 2011 at 14:48 | history | answered | Tsuyoshi Ito | CC BY-SA 3.0 |