like they enumerate *everything*, it's super noticeable if you read anything in that sphere, but afaik there's no special regard for three like we have
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actually has anyone written anything analyzing the chinese "everything is numbered lists" thing I'd love to read it
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it's literally omnipresent (four occupations, thirty-six stratagems, four great masterpieces, four books and five classics...) but I've never seen english commentary on it
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this isn't something that went away either. four olds and four news, five black categories, four modernizations, four nevers
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I tell Asian composition students, "Americans think 3 is a magic number. 3 supporting points that have 3 supporting points that have 3...
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it's weird and fractal, and, accompanied by decent grammar and generally logical organization, will usually get your essay an A.
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yes this is 100% accurate
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ya (I actually open $currentthing citing dumezil) but I'm wondering more about its absence from other cultures than presence in ours
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school of yin and yang = everything is twos, and if you need more numbers you use powers of two
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Doesn't the emphasis on twos and fours come from the disyllabic rhythmic nature of the language? Yin/yang is just one example, not the cause
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im too good at pattern-matching to give anything but a compelling wrong answer
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3 is close to e.
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@RealSexyCyborg, any insight into this?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Fwiw most Indo-European music is in a duple meter and beats are most commonly split by two. Music for dancing is in triple meter though.
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