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<blockquote data-quote="AC016" data-source="post: 391628" data-attributes="member: 9619">I suggest you do a little research before stating something is nonsense.&nbsp; In Japanese, the number four has the same pronunciation as the word death.&nbsp; Four is pronounced shi, same sound as the word death.&nbsp; This is why there is two readings of the word four, shi &amp; yon.&nbsp; Same goes for the number 9, which has the sound ku when pronounced.&nbsp; Ku can also mean agony, suffering or torture.&nbsp; 8 is considered a lucky number and one of the reasons that Airbus numbered their A380 aircraft with the number 8 in it, for the Asian market was their target market.&nbsp; You can read about that in this book:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Airbus-A380-Superjumbo-21st-Century-ebook/dp/B004PLNRSC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1418824745&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=airbus+a380" target="_blank">Airbus A380: Superjumbo of the 21st Century eBook: Guy Norris, Mark Wagner: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store</a>In regards to the what i had said in my post, i was merely making an observation that Nikon would be skipping a number in the squenece of 5000, 5100, 5200, 5300, 5500.&nbsp; Since Nikon has not been doing so well for the past couple of years, i thought maybe they were getting a little superstitious about things.&nbsp; That's all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AC016, post: 391628, member: 9619"] I suggest you do a little research before stating something is nonsense. In Japanese, the number four has the same pronunciation as the word death. Four is pronounced [I]shi, [/I]same sound as the word death. This is why there is two readings of the word four, [I]shi [/I]& [I]yon. [/I]Same goes for the number 9, which has the sound [I]ku [/I]when pronounced. [I]Ku [/I]can also mean agony, suffering or torture. 8 is considered a lucky number and one of the reasons that Airbus numbered their A380 aircraft with the number 8 in it, for the Asian market was their target market. You can read about that in this book: [url=http://www.amazon.ca/Airbus-A380-Superjumbo-21st-Century-ebook/dp/B004PLNRSC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418824745&sr=8-1&keywords=airbus+a380]Airbus A380: Superjumbo of the 21st Century eBook: Guy Norris, Mark Wagner: Amazon.ca: Kindle Store[/url] In regards to the what i had said in my post, i was merely making an observation that Nikon would be skipping a number in the squenece of 5000, 5100, 5200, 5300, 5500. Since Nikon has not been doing so well for the past couple of years, i thought maybe they were getting a little superstitious about things. That's all. [/QUOTE]

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