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Post by Admin on Dec 17, 2012 11:16:01 GMT -5
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Post by newyorkled2008 on Dec 17, 2012 11:33:07 GMT -5
aha! Had to read the article to see why S5
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Post by Admin on Dec 17, 2012 11:37:50 GMT -5
lol!
Asians think the number 4 is bad luck, or means death.lol
SBG
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Post by newyorkled2008 on Dec 17, 2012 11:48:59 GMT -5
Not too unlike our aversion to not having a 13th floor. answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060917174241AAgpRlk<< Similarly, new buildings in some parts of China omit the fourth, fourteenth, twenty-fourth, etc. floors, as the word "four" (Hanzi: 四) sounds like "death" (死 - both are pronounced "sì" and "sǐ", respectively) in Mandarin, the predominant dialect for the country, and most other Chinese dialects. A small number of buildings also follow the Western tradition of omitting the thirteenth floor, with the fifteenth floor immediately following the twelfth. Although the Hanja for four and death are read identically in Korean, buildings in South Korea tend not to omit the fourth floor. However, newer buildings tend to label the fourth floor with the letter F, instead of the number 4. >>
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