!remindme sixty years when i confirm
what about thirmty three
Mine touch at pebenty peben.
And then they touch for every number until 1 trillion
One point five… d’oh!
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
Made me silently count to ten to confirm. Mind expanded.
I’m still counting
I love this! It doesn’t seem like it could possibly be true, but my 30 seconds of testing haven’t debunked it.
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
Yes, it’s ‘fem’ in Norwegian, too…
Huh. Same in Dutch!
Not in German tho. Sieben
Fümf
Lies.
Fem :(
Kolme - that’s 3 in Finnish
Sieben
Siem
Sieben
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.
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.
My upper teeth touch my bottom lip when I do.
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
ce, ome, yei, nahui (Nahuatl)
Maybe, but how long do you have to count for your eyelids to touch?
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
1 more and you learn why Swedish is superior.
One more and Germans get in on the action. And they get to say sechs (sex) right before.
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 😁
