Daily Thread: simple questions, comments that don’t need their own posts, and first time posters go here (January 21, 2023)

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1. Can 千早く mean “a thousand times faster”?

   I saw this…

   飲めば、何千年だって生きられる！千早く細くなりたい人にも、おすすめです。

   Context: Label on some fictional medicine which turns you into a mummy. I guess you can live longer and get skinny too.

   I think this says, “If you drink this, you can live even thousands of years! Also recommended for people who want to become skinnier a thousand times faster too!”

   But I’m struggling with 千早く because I didn’t see numbers as an adverb (I think this is it?) before

2. Does the ぬ in the song title 島人ぬ宝 have the same meaning as the の particle? Or asked simpler does 島人ぬ宝 equal 島人の宝？

3. I’m having trouble with the とおり grammar point when it’s not super obvious and I just want to make sure I understood this properly. This is from a reading in Quartet 1, about a professor who won a Nobel Prize for his research on IPS cells:

   「９回失敗しないと１回成功しない。失敗するのは、はずかしいことではない」という言葉どおり、山中教授はIPS細胞ができるまで決して研究をやめませんでした。

   Does it say something like:

   As the expression goes/as the expression says, “If you don’t fail 9 times, you won’t succeed once. Failing isn’t embarrassing”, Professor Yamanaka won’t stop doing research until IPS cells are possible.

4. >「やだ、すて犬かなー。かわいそうに。」せなかがうすいはい色で、目のまわり**とと**おなかだけ白い色をしています。「うわー、かわいい。でも、うちマンションだから犬かえないなあ。」

   Why is there 2 と here? Is it a typo?

5. Is there a way to say “again” in command form that is short and fast? I am familiar with “mou ichido もういちど,” but I need somethin’ that can be said quicker, if possible. Somethin’ you can say over and over, like, if you’re drilling a technique. ありがとうございます。