What if I say "um" somewhere because I lost my place?
this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2025
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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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they do if u kiss me
They do if you kiss yourself in the mirror, but only on the lips
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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I love this! It doesn't seem like it could possibly be true, but my 30 seconds of testing haven't debunked it.
And then they touch for every number until 1 trillion
Oh shiiit thats trippy!
Unless I do it in my native language, Finnish. Then I'll only get to three.
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Joke's on you, I'm Roman.
My lips already touch at 𝕄.
Mine touch at pebenty peben.
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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and how high did OP have to count before he touched somebody else's lips the first time?
what about thirmty three
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.
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.
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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.
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Nah, definitely happens at 300 with 三百
Edit: in japanese, but I didn't list my language since OP didn't bother.
This is my favourite shower thought post so far.
forget what number you're on and say, "um".
Un, dau, tri, pedwar. Nope, they touch at what you call four.
In a lot of Indo-European languages you're stopping right at 5, *pénkʷe. For example Greek (πέντε pénte) and Sanskrit (पञ्चन् páñcan).
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