The meaning of 'some'

Hi Darcy. Some there means a place which destination or name is not important or vague.

DarcyWhat is the meaning of 'some' in the following sentence.
* He asked me how far it was to some distant place?

Thanks in advance.

I guess you implied "distant".

Fandorin , you're right.

It's not 'distance' but 'distant'.

So..The sentence is 'He asked me how far it was to some distant place'..

Anyway my question is the same as the above. what is the meaning of 'some' in the sentence?

As I told you. Some there means a place which destination or name is not important or vague.

Some=vague=indistinct=blurred=not clear or sharply defined=dim=.....

He asked me how far it was to some distant place.

The phrase is very vague. What does it mean? Even with Fandorin's explanation of 'some', the sentence makes little sense to me.

That is definitely one of the ways that the word "some" is used, and it is not an unusual usage. The use of "some" in that sentence suggests that the speaker can't remember the name of the place, or possibly that the speaker doesn't think it worth being more specific. The speaker may have thought that the question "he" asked was stupid, and thus the tone of the sentence may be dismissive.

to some distant place = to some distant place or other = to a distant place, it doesn't matter which place. (The specific place is irrelevant to the story.) Alternately, the speaker doesn't even know which place.

Compare:

-- What has got Jerry so excited about ancient Greek coins?
-- Well, he read some book about it, and now it's become an obsession with him.

-- Je