Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-31074250-20170410160032/@comment-4961229-20170414162010

Actionmanrandell wrote: the japanese language is a literal language so when kaguya says this is my time space she is speaking literally not figuratiely, This is quite a remarkable assertion that I've never heard anywhere... ever. Can you explain how you came by such a conclusion?

I tend to doubt it. I'm not even sure what you really mean by this, since Japanese is perfectly capable of expressing all types of figurative language I've ever encountered, such as metaphor, personification, simile, hyperbole, idiom, puns, etc.

Case in point, 起死回生, “wake from death and return to life,” doesn't mean someone had an actual near death experience. It means “to turn a bad or desperate situation into a success.”

And 我田引水, “pulling water to my own rice paddy,” doesn't mean you're a rice farmer irrigating your crops. It means “doing or saying things for one’s own benefit.”

At this point, I'm highly sceptical of your claim. However, I'm open to new information. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯