that’s one hell of a water bill if you were in the shower counting to one million.
When you count, your lips don't touch until 1 million.
Submitted 1 month ago by DeadNinja@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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adarza@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Engywuck@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Not if you count using a logarithmic base 10 scale!
kernelle@0d.gs 1 month ago
Just yell 10! and you’ve counted way further already
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
When the thoughts get so deep you turn the water off and just stand there.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 month ago
In English*
espentan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yup, I can’t get past 5 in Norwegian.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I got to three ín Hungarian and seven in German.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 1 month ago
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
58008@lemmy.world 1 month ago
they do if u kiss me
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
They do if you kiss yourself in the mirror, but only on the lips
SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
You can only kiss your lips in the mirror
djmikeale@lemm.ee 1 month ago
En, to, tre, fire, fem.
1000000 / 5 = 200000
Here’s the proof that Danish is 200.000 times better than English.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 month ago
In romanian, it ends at 4. Romanian is 25% better than dutch and 250000 times better than english
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 month ago
250000 times better than english
That’s a very low bar tho
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 1 month ago
1 more and you learn why Swedish is superior.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
One more and Germans get in on the action. And they get to say sechs (sex) right before.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
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 😁
MoonlightFox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
As long as you have that ridiculous “to og en halvfjers” counting system, you do not have a superior system 😉
djmikeale@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Haha! Yeah truth be told, our number system is completely stupid 😂
bremen15@feddit.org 1 month ago
Found the american.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I only have to count to 5
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 1 month ago
DampCanary@lemmy.world 1 month ago
same, but it’s pet (five)
samus12345@lemm.ee 1 month ago
It applies to any English-speaking country, which makes sense since it’s written in English.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I love this! It doesn’t seem like it could possibly be true, but my 30 seconds of testing haven’t debunked it.
Fleur_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
And then they keep touching until 1 trillion
Whulum@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Oh shiiit wtf!
wieson@feddit.org 1 month ago
7 sieben, Bruder
Drekaridill@feddit.is 1 month ago
5 fimm, bróðir
sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Fümf
Lies.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sieben
nore@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Portuguese: 1 (um)
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Is this this case in Brasil? In european portuguese your lips don’t touch for um
nore@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yeah, forgot to specify ;P
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
!remindme sixty years when i confirm
Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
We do miss that not here.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
there was this one but it had to be whitelisted and i didnt want to spam so i just faked it :)
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Made me silently count to ten to confirm. Mind expanded.
BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m still counting
superkret@feddit.org 1 month ago
Joke’s on you, I’m Roman.
My lips already touch at 𝕄.KammicRelief@lemmy.world 1 month ago
One point five… d’oh!
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 1 month ago
π
collapse_already@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
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.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nope, for me my bottom teeth touch my upper lips.
topherclay@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
samus12345@lemm.ee 1 month ago
My upper teeth touch my bottom lip when I do.
Siethron@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I cover my bottom teeth with my bottom lip at the start so the lips touch on ‘four’
myfavouritename@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Thought the same, but you’re right, putting both lips together makes a plosive.
Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Unless I do it in my native language, Finnish. Then I’ll only get to three.
mastertigurius@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Norwegians are the supreme Scandinavians. We can count to five.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Mine touch at pebenty peben.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 month ago
Egy, kettő, három
3 in hungarian
ianfraserkrillmaster@midwest.social 1 month ago
ce, ome, yei, nahui (Nahuatl)
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 1 month ago
I guess you win
Dicska@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Maybe, but how long do you have to count for your eyelids to touch?
Labna@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Un deux trois… Mille ! In French (France 🇫🇷) 1000 before lips touch.
… Soixante-neuf, septante ! In French (Switzerland 🇨🇭) 70! (in France it’s soixante-dix 😂)
tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 1 month ago
How to say 90 in Swiss French? In French French the (40x2+10) way drives me crazy
Hack3900@lemy.lol 1 month ago
Nonante! And 80 is octante or huitante depending on the region It is a little simpler than this base20 thing lol
Dicska@lemmy.world 1 month ago
[OFF TOPIC]
TIL there are italic emojis. 🤌
oppy1984@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Just counted out loud, one…lips touched.
reddig33@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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).
ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 1 month ago
screw googling. try saying it yourself without touching lips.
it comes out as “oen”.
oppy1984@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I guess we’re all different, my lips definitely touched when saying one. There’s got to be an outlier for everything I guess.
hakase@lemm.ee 1 month ago
“Open sounds” (which, I assume, refers to continuants) and bilabial sounds aren’t mutually exclusive.
When you pronounce the /w/ at the beginning of “one”, your lips round (purse) and touch each other at the corners, but they don’t form a full closure. So, the oral tract is still open, but the articulators (moving mouth parts) are still touching.
This could be reworded as “the middle of your lips don’t touch each other”, but multiple commenters are correct in that your lips absolutely do touch each other when you say “one” in English.
ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 1 month ago
and how high did OP have to count before he touched somebody else’s lips the first time?
ianfraserkrillmaster@midwest.social 1 month ago
what about thirmty three
philthi@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is my favourite shower thought post so far.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Mine touch at sebbin.
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 month ago
Huh. Same in Dutch!
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 month ago
Not in German tho. Sieben
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 1 month ago
Ah ja, in Dutch that would be “zeven”.
Maybe some people touch lips when saying the “F”, in that case we would fail at “vijf” (fünf)
Tagger@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Un, dau, tri, pedwar. Nope, they touch at what you call four.
bizarroland@lemmy.world 1 month ago
forget what number you’re on and say, “um”.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
What if I say “um” somewhere because I lost my place?
Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 month ago
Then