MonkderVierte comments on Sea Level

Sea Level (europe.pub)

submitted 9 months ago by gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 months ago (5 children)

13 is a unlucky superstition number.

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[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 7 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Only in Western cultures. In East Asia, it’s 4.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

They have a different calendar too, no?

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 months ago

Nope, theirs is also the same. Just another same than ours.

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[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

In China, it's 8 due to the number sounding like the Mandarin word for death

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[–] TheRealKuni@piefed.social 2 points 9 months ago

In my understanding, 4 sounds like the word for death and 8 sounds like the word for wealth, so 8 is considered lucky.

But I don’t speak any version of Chinese, and could very well be wrong.

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