| your mother said: You know, being that I'm not the world's supreme overseer of elevator regulations nor am I the plenipotentiary commissar of floor regulations, I didn't make these rules. Different countries have different beliefs, cultures, traditions and religions and for them numerology plays a huge role - not just in building regulations, but in daily life in general. The only importance numbers serve are to count the things that exist. They should not be used as names, nor should certain numbers be removed, which destroys their purpose to count things that exist, because they may appear to be "unlucky," even though "luck" doesn't exist. Chinese normally rely on numerology to determine auspicious days to open a company, to get married, to bury the deceased, and as far as they're concerned, they frankly don't give a rat's ass what number precedes the other. It's the symbolical value of the number that's important. Numerical laws should not be altered by beliefs of luck. You can eliminate numbers in writing, but you can never eliminate numbers in existence. If there are 20 rocks, there are 20 rocks. Without removal of any of the rocks, it is not possible to remove the 13th rock. You can engrave 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 on the rocks, but there will still be 13 rocks in existence. The rock with "14" engraved on it, is still the 13th rock, no matter what you do, because in true existence, 13 rocks exist. Therefore, the number "14" is a false truth, only to support the"luck" superstition, and is a lie to the numberical law. For South America, the situation is different. They don't care about the floors per se, but the function of the floor. That's why they give names to the first few floors, as they perform certain "functions" - you know, like the ground floor normally houses a lobby (which some countries also denominate what you consider "floor 0"). And if you don't have the mezzanine denominated as such, then people won't know there's a mezzanine. At least South America is more, numerically accurate than the other continents. Finally, about my superstition comment - read it again... |
