One point five.. d'oh!
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Made me silently count to ten to confirm. Mind expanded.
I'm still counting
they do if u kiss me
They do if you kiss yourself in the mirror, but only on the lips
You can only kiss your lips in the mirror
I love this! It doesn't seem like it could possibly be true, but my 30 seconds of testing haven't debunked it.
Huh. Same in Dutch!
Not in German tho. Sieben
Fümf
Lies.
Fem :(
Kolme - that’s 3 in Finnish
Sieben
Siem
Sieben
In English*
Yup, I can't get past 5 in Norwegian.
It's 'fem' in Swedish too, guessing it's something similar in Norwegian? In Hebrew the first is 5 too (Chamesh/חמש), so that's an interesting pattern
Portuguese: 1 (um)
In English, my lips touch when I make the "f" sound at the start of four. I am also pretty sure they touch for one.
Nope, for me my bottom teeth touch my upper lips.
My upper teeth touch my bottom lip when I do.
The F sound is usually a labialdental fricative in English. So you are putting your bottom lip on your teeth and letting some air go by to make the F sound.
English has bilabial plosives where you touch both lips together and let air stop for a moment which makes the P or B sounds.
English doesn't have a bilabial fricative so you might be doing this in your dialect and it doesn't stand out to anyone because it doesn't otherwise have a phonetic meaning. But, interestingly, in other languages a bilabial fricative has distinct meaning from a labial dental fricative. I believe I've read that in Japanese the "F" in "Mount Fuji" is actually a bilabial fricative and not the normal F that English speakers use.
I cover my bottom teeth with my bottom lip at the start so the lips touch on 'four'
I'm not sure about this. The only way I can make my lips touch when saying that number is if I actually say pour.
Thought the same, but you're right, putting both lips together makes a plosive.
Egy, kettő, három
3 in hungarian
Maybe, but how long do you have to count for your eyelids to touch?
correct me if I'm wrong, but it's up to 1000 in Spanish, right? I'm wondering if I'm saying 9 right.
In Belgian French it's 70, and in French² it's 1000
Joke's on you, I'm Roman.
My lips already touch at 𝕄.
Oh shiiit thats trippy!
En, to, tre, fire, fem.
1000000 / 5 = 200000
Here's the proof that Danish is 200.000 times better than English.
In romanian, it ends at 4. Romanian is 25% better than dutch and 250000 times better than english
250000 times better than english
That's a very low bar tho
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Found the american.
It applies to any English-speaking country, which makes sense since it's written in English.
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What if I say "um" somewhere because I lost my place?
Then it's your fault for not saying "uh" instead!
that's one hell of a water bill if you were in the shower counting to one million.
Not if you count using a logarithmic base 10 scale!
Just yell 10! and you've counted way further already
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Un deux trois... Mille ! In French (France 🇫🇷) 1000 before lips touch.
... Soixante-neuf, septante ! In French (Switzerland 🇨🇭) 70! (in France it's soixante-dix 😂)
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TIL there are italic emojis. 🏠
How to say 90 in Swiss French? In French French the (40x2+10) way drives me crazy
Nonante!
And 80 is octante or huitante depending on the region
It is a little simpler than this base20 thing lol
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