Comments on: Growing Up With An Irrational Fear Of The Number Four http://www.tofugu.com/2012/03/27/growing-up-with-an-irrational-fear-of-the-number-four/ A Japanese Language & Culture Blog Sun, 13 Apr 2014 10:14:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.2 By: TheRitzyMuffin http://www.tofugu.com/2012/03/27/growing-up-with-an-irrational-fear-of-the-number-four/comment-page-1/#comment-70475 Sun, 14 Apr 2013 21:46:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=17341#comment-70475 I wonder how they feel about Tetris…. that game’s all about the number four!

]]> By: mike http://www.tofugu.com/2012/03/27/growing-up-with-an-irrational-fear-of-the-number-four/comment-page-1/#comment-56187 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 05:37:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=17341#comment-56187 So is there no difference in the way the words (“four” and “death”) are pronounced in Japanese?

And no difference in the way they’re pronounced in Korean either?

]]> By: Angelica http://www.tofugu.com/2012/03/27/growing-up-with-an-irrational-fear-of-the-number-four/comment-page-1/#comment-53597 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:54:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=17341#comment-53597 can you imagine his 40th birthday 4-4-44 Wow that will suck I guess was he born at 4:44 that would be even worse

]]> By: Ang Rui Xuan http://www.tofugu.com/2012/03/27/growing-up-with-an-irrational-fear-of-the-number-four/comment-page-1/#comment-53395 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:22:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=17341#comment-53395 I don’t personally see much of this superstition here in Singapore, so I’d say people nowadays are generally more open and forgiving of taboos like that.
Yep.

]]> By: Meg Datsameh http://www.tofugu.com/2012/03/27/growing-up-with-an-irrational-fear-of-the-number-four/comment-page-1/#comment-53206 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:28:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=17341#comment-53206 I feel that the only reason Chinese and Japanese people would be most likely to have heart attacks on the 4th would be out of fear of the fact that it’s the 4th of the month. (I don’t believe that this is the reason, fyi. Too extreme.) Also, why would it be only Chinese and Japanese that they were testing? Why not Koreans, Vietnamese, etc. if the majority of them believe that too? If they believe the same superstition, wouldn’t it be the same for them as well? And the fact that there’s nothing about people in other countries experiencing the same thing, just tells me that fear may have something to do with it (although I do still think it’s much too extreme).

If it’s already nailed into your brain to believe stuff like that, however (not you personally, but rather most of Asia) then I could understand not being able to shake it.
Here’s how I feel…

U.S. citizens: scared of the number 13, but okay with the number 4

Asian citizens: scared of the number 4, but okay with the number 13

What does this tell me? Numbers are numbers, and numbers aren’t scary. Yaaaaay~!! Let’s all be happy and go eat some ice cream!! ( ^^)/

]]> By: Erika http://www.tofugu.com/2012/03/27/growing-up-with-an-irrational-fear-of-the-number-four/comment-page-1/#comment-48233 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 20:21:00 +0000 http://www.tofugu.com/?p=17341#comment-48233 Do you even know what irony is?

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