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Author Message   Anonymous Posted on Thursday, June 12, 2003 - 09:58 am:    A song in a video game is called this. It translates as 1000 words, but why is the "no" there? Isn't "no" a possesive marker? What is it doing there? Thanks.   Anonymous Posted on Friday, June 27, 2003 - 01:51 am:    well... yeah... you can think of it as posessive... but... 友達の麻衣子 (tomodati no maiko) means "my friend maiko". so, the "no" kind of explains "what kind of maiko". in the case of 千の言葉, it explains the "how many kotoba". Also, you need the no because kotoba is not a counter... anyone else wanna take a shot at explaining this difficult grammar???   Mr. Anonymous Posted on Wednesday, July 02, 2003 - 06:59 am:    I guess i should have added that in this case, since it's a song, grammar doesn't really matter. Sorry if my unintentional witholding threw some people off. The gist of it would be "many words", or "thousands of words", not necessarilly exactly 1000 words. that make sense?