baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
In Japan, 'shi' is the word for both 4 and death. Didn't know it applied to China too, but...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraphobia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraphobia
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Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Heh.
I saw a guy in the canteen at lunch today who had a load of mathematical tattoos, I mean nested fractions, digits of pi, some diagrams that looked like they'd been drawn in Mathematica, all that. I thought, I bet he's got a favourite number. Several, probably.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
I would guess maybe it started in China and then spread to other countries in E/SE Asia.
Even in certain parts of Europe it has a viersome reputation...
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viktorvaughn
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Some record labels miss 13 out of their sequences too i seem to recall
http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_..._anumeracy_in_a_language_without_numbers.html
Among Pirahã's many peculiarities is an almost complete lack of numeracy, an extremely rare linguistic trait of which there are only a few documented cases. The language contains no words at all for discrete numbers and only three that approximate some notion of quantity—hói, a "small size or amount," hoí, a "somewhat larger size or amount," and baágiso, which can mean either to "cause to come together" or "a bunch."
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The Pirahã consider all forms of human discourse other than their own to be laughably inferior, and they are unique among Amazonian peoples in remaining monolingual.
@hmgovt
Among Pirahã's many peculiarities is an almost complete lack of numeracy, an extremely rare linguistic trait of which there are only a few documented cases. The language contains no words at all for discrete numbers and only three that approximate some notion of quantity—hói, a "small size or amount," hoí, a "somewhat larger size or amount," and baágiso, which can mean either to "cause to come together" or "a bunch."
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The Pirahã consider all forms of human discourse other than their own to be laughably inferior, and they are unique among Amazonian peoples in remaining monolingual.
@hmgovt
woops
is not like other people
I thought I'd imagined it.
There was no number 13 on the street where I grew up.
555 is a lucky number in China, hence the cigarette brand
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Haha, like Discworld trolls, whose counting system goes "one, two, many, lots".
IdleRich
IdleRich
I remember reading those Littlenose books when I was little and their counting went "One, two, plenty" - they were cavemen I think.
Edit - close http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Grant_(children's_author)
Edit - close http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Grant_(children's_author)
mistersloane
heavy heavy monster sound
sorry, it's 5318008, and this is why
