Wang 300 Calc

[der Mouse]

> This sounds like an urban legend to me.  [...]

> Are you seriously telling me that version 4/model 4/etc of any
> product never sells in China????

I don't know about China.  But I've studied a little Japanese, and
something very similar is true there.  You'll sometimes hear the digit
4 as "yon" rather than "shi" because "shi" means something negative -
death, I think, but I'm not at all sure of that (it's been too long).

Apparently - I've never been to Japan, but this report came from
someone who has - buildings in Japan don't have 4th floors, much the
way buildings in North America don't have 13th floors.

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