Hmm... These are interesting questions, here are my responses:
- I'd never really counted how much I used, so I can't answer this honestly. But I find it funny that the Western World generally follows the 3-rule while the Asian World generally follows the 5-rule. So I think that your impression with three is inspired on an unconscious level by the 3-rule.
- I don't know what I am irrationally afraid off, but I do get these sudden twitches whenever I get cold gusts of air to blow on me (anywhere on the body). So maybe I have an unconscious fear of cold gusts, especially whenever it doesn't make sense for them to exist. I dunno, maybe because I don't consciously fear cold air in the Winter yet unconsciously I think some bad shit is going to happen. I dunno.
- When and why did humans adopted figurative language as a part of their overall language? While nowadays it makes sense, you probably wonder that because of how crazy translations can get between languages.
I didn't realise there was a rough link to culture! How interesting! Cold shivers, isn't there a saying that someone is walking on your grave?
Idioms, the bane of my speaking in Dutch... I never understand what people mean, only what they say exactly... I have no ear for the idioms in my non native language!
Funny that I remembered that cultural factoid, amazing how the mind remembers things like that. Anywho, probably going to keep that in mind whenever I feel a gust of cold air. And yeah, idioms are quite scary to just hear - they are the language's own inside joke before inside jokes were a thing.
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