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Re: Don't Lie To Me About Web 2.0

From	om@iki.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Don't Lie To Me About Web 2.0
Date	2022-07-08 13:40 +0300
Organization	Games and Theory
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Eric Pozharski <whynot@pozharski.name> wrote:

> p.p.s. It's urban legend, that Japanese people can't stand number
> four. I see problem here. Anyone ready to bet The Industry will go
> directly to Web5?

That's because original sinotic form of 四 "four" sounds like
死 "death", both are transliterated as /ɕi/. In modern Japanese,
perhaps due to this, four is read as /jõ̞ɴ/.

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Don't Lie To Me About Web 2.0 Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> - 2022-07-02 16:03 +0000
  Re: Don't Lie To Me About Web 2.0 Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2022-07-04 18:58 +0100
    Re: Don't Lie To Me About Web 2.0 "Andy K." <andy.k466@gmail.com> - 2022-07-07 10:33 +0200
      Re: Don't Lie To Me About Web 2.0 Eric Pozharski <whynot@pozharski.name> - 2022-07-07 11:22 +0000
        Re: Don't Lie To Me About Web 2.0 om@iki.fi (Otto J. Makela) - 2022-07-08 13:40 +0300
          Re: Don't Lie To Me About Web 2.0 ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2022-07-08 15:58 -0500
            Re: Don't Lie To Me About Web 2.0 "Andy K." <andy.k466@gmail.com> - 2022-07-11 21:21 +0200
        Re: Don't Lie To Me About Web 2.0 Eric Pozharski <whynot@pozharski.name> - 2022-08-03 09:17 +0000
          Re: Don't Lie To Me About Web 2.0 jaouad zarrabi <jzarrabi31@gmail.com> - 2022-09-01 07:40 -0700
      Re: Don't Lie To Me About Web 2.0 "Zibon Badi" <zibonbadi@nowhere.invalid> - 2022-07-09 11:24 +0000
      Re: Don't Lie To Me About Web 2.0 "Zibon Badi" <zibonbadi@nowhere.invalid> - 2022-07-09 11:24 +0000
        Re: Don't Lie To Me About Web 2.0 Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2022-07-10 04:00 -0300
          Re: Don't Lie To Me About Web 2.0 ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2022-07-10 19:46 -0500
    Re: Don't Lie To Me About Web 2.0 Matthew Ernisse <matt@going-flying.com> - 2022-07-11 13:43 +0000

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