Don't the Japanese who avoid the use of 4 because it sounds like death?
I could be wrong, but I seem to remember that.
Also, I remember hearing that about the Japanese television show "Iron
Chef". Although there are 4 Iron Chefs, the TV program only shows 3 at
the most (at a time) to avoid showing or referring to all 4 of them.
Sorry to interrupt your thread, but I found it a humorous sideline in an
all too un-unhumorous (like that's a word) work week. :)
Cheers!
/rpg
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John Day <day(_at_)STD(_dot_)COM>
08/03/00 09:03 AM
To: "Hans E. Kristiansen" <hans(_at_)cfnasia(_dot_)com>, "Michael
H. Warfield"
<mhw(_at_)wittsend(_dot_)com>, "Scott Lawrence"
<lawrence(_at_)agranat(_dot_)com>
cc: <ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
Subject: Re: Heard at the IETF
At 3:40 PM +0800 8/3/00, Hans E. Kristiansen wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 03:58:47PM -0400, Scott Lawrence wrote:
> > > - elevators (in the US) go 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 15...
> > > they skip 13! Does this make 14 a prime number ? ;-)
>
> > No - it makes 26 a prime number.
>
> That's OK... But in China, they skip "4". (They really do).
Because the idiogram for the number four sounds like "death", so it is
for a
good reason. Number 13 is just unlucky.
Ahhh, right. Thanks for putting a scientific view on the subject. ;-)