To my dear Malaysian Mandarin speakers:
Whether you know notice it or not, there is a huge difference between leg and foot, not only physically, but also literally.
In Chinese, we have two words to say them:
leg-we call it "tui"-腿
foot-we call it "jiao"-脚
so you can imagine how hard for me to figure out what you mean when you say "oh, her foot is so long" when you actually mean " her leg is so long"
Same story, when we say someone is huge in size, we don't use " da zhi"-大只，because the word "只" is a measure word for animals, for example: chicken, duck, bird etc. (check a dictionary, and you will find it out) Can you imagine how funny for me when I hear that?
Please do not say: "oh, that's Malaysian Chinese!", unfortunately there is not a language called 'Malaysian Chinese' ! all you need is to get on with more vocabularies, or at least to get it right.
Kind regards
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