unlucky numbers

unlucky numbers

Posted Dec 5, 2009 1:26 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: Between Fedora 12 and 13 by JoeBuck
Parent article: Between Fedora 12 and 13

My Chinese colleagues take lucky and unlucky numbers far more seriously than Americans do

That's my experience too.

Chinese American business people nearly wet themselves back when "888" was introduced as a toll-free telephone area code.

If you don't know Mandarin but listen to Mandarin TV a lot (as I do, due to my Chinese roommate), the most common phrase you hear is "yi ba ba ba," which appears at the end of most commercials and means "1-888".

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