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DeadNinja@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 8 months ago

When you count, your lips don't touch until 1 million.

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When you count, your lips don't touch until 1 million.

DeadNinja@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 8 months ago
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  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    What if I say “um” somewhere because I lost my place?

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      Then it’s your fault for not saying “uh” instead!

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    that’s one hell of a water bill if you were in the shower counting to one million.

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      Not if you count using a logarithmic base 10 scale!

    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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      When the thoughts get so deep you turn the water off and just stand there.

  • djmikeale@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    En, to, tre, fire, fem.

    1000000 / 5 = 200000

    Here’s the proof that Danish is 200.000 times better than English.

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      In romanian, it ends at 4. Romanian is 25% better than dutch and 250000 times better than english

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        250000 times better than english

        That’s a very low bar tho

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      Speaking as a fellow Dane, I reject your “touch lips quickly while counting” criteria for language quality, especially since English is much more versatile and universally useful for communication and thus better 😁

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    Found the american.

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      I only have to count to 5

    • samus12345@lemm.ee
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      It applies to any English-speaking country, which makes sense since it’s written in English.

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    7 sieben, Bruder

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      5 fimm, bróðir

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    In English*

    • espentan@lemmy.world
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      Yup, I can’t get past 5 in Norwegian.

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        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

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          Yes, it’s ‘fem’ in Norwegian, too…

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    Unless I do it in my native language, Finnish. Then I’ll only get to three.

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      Norwegians are supreme in the Nordics. We can count to five.

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    they do if u kiss me

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      They do if you kiss yourself in the mirror, but only on the lips

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        You can only kiss your lips in the mirror

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    And then they touch for every number until 1 trillion

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    My lips touch when I say one.

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  • ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world
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    and how high did OP have to count before he touched somebody else’s lips the first time?

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    !remindme sixty years when i confirm

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    Nah, definitely happens at 300 with 三百

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      八

      • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zip
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        Empat

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          apat (4), lima (5), anim (6), pito (7)…

          The lip-touching streak breaks for just one number: walo (8) and another streak starts with siyam (9) all the way to siyamnapu’t-siyam (99) by how two-digit numbers are pronounced. For example: labing-isa (11), walompu’t-walo (88).

          (I think) there’s a lip-touching streak that is longer than this: walong daan at siyamnapu (890) to siyam na raan siyamnapu’t siyam na bilyon, siyam na raan siyamnapu’t siyam na milyon, siyam na raan siyamnapu’t siyam na libo, siyam na raan siyamnapu’t siyam (999 999 999 999).

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    Just counted out loud, one…lips touched.

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      That’s what I thought too, but if you google it, w sound is classified as “open mouth” sound by the experts. To me it feels like lips vibrating as sound and breath come through (lips open/close/open as they vibrate).

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        screw googling. try saying it yourself without touching lips.

        it comes out as “oen”.

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        I guess we’re all different, my lips definitely touched when saying one. There’s got to be an outlier for everything I guess.

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    Mine touch at pebenty peben.

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