3 before I touch.
When you count, your lips don't touch until 1 million.
Submitted 11 months ago by DeadNinja@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Valmond@lemmy.world 11 months ago
1000 touches.
In french :-)
Noodle07@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Touche, ça touche pas
Et touche pas ça touche
Valmond@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ha ha je connais celui là 😁
ianfraserkrillmaster@midwest.social 11 months ago
what about thirmty three
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
!remindme sixty years when i confirm
Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
We do miss that not here.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
there was this one but it had to be whitelisted and i didnt want to spam so i just faked it :)
hperrin@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Mine touch at pebenty peben.
Fleur_@aussie.zone 11 months ago
And then they keep touching until 1 trillion
KammicRelief@lemmy.world 11 months ago
One point five… d’oh!
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 11 months ago
π
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Made me silently count to ten to confirm. Mind expanded.
BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m still counting
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 11 months ago
Huh. Same in Dutch!
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 11 months ago
Not in German tho. Sieben
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 11 months 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)
fixmycode@feddit.cl 11 months ago
correct me if I’m wrong, but it’s up to 1000 in Spanish, right? I’m wondering if I’m saying 9 right.
sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Fümf
Lies.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sieben
collapse_already@lemmy.ml 11 months 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 11 months ago
Nope, for me my bottom teeth touch my upper lips.
topherclay@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months ago
My upper teeth touch my bottom lip when I do.
Siethron@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I cover my bottom teeth with my bottom lip at the start so the lips touch on ‘four’
myfavouritename@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months ago
Thought the same, but you’re right, putting both lips together makes a plosive.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I love this! It doesn’t seem like it could possibly be true, but my 30 seconds of testing haven’t debunked it.
58008@lemmy.world 11 months ago
they do if u kiss me
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
They do if you kiss yourself in the mirror, but only on the lips
SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
You can only kiss your lips in the mirror
nore@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Portuguese: 1 (um)
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Is this this case in Brasil? In european portuguese your lips don’t touch for um
nore@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Yeah, forgot to specify ;P
thedarkfly@feddit.nl 11 months ago
In Belgian French it’s 70, and in French² it’s 1000
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Egy, kettő, három
3 in hungarian
ianfraserkrillmaster@midwest.social 11 months ago
ce, ome, yei, nahui (Nahuatl)
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 11 months ago
I guess you win
Dicska@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Maybe, but how long do you have to count for your eyelids to touch?
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 11 months ago
In English*
espentan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yup, I can’t get past 5 in Norwegian.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I got to three ín Hungarian and seven in German.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 11 months 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
lnxtx@feddit.nl 11 months ago
pięć [guess the language]
kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 11 months ago
odin dva tri chetire Piat
5 in Russian
superkret@feddit.org 11 months ago
Joke’s on you, I’m Roman.
My lips already touch at 𝕄.cheese_greater@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Its the m- like plosive thingy?
Whulum@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Oh shiiit wtf!
Labna@lemmy.world 11 months 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 😂)
Dicska@lemmy.world 11 months ago
[OFF TOPIC]
TIL there are italic emojis. 🤌
tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How to say 90 in Swiss French? In French French the (40x2+10) way drives me crazy
Hack3900@lemy.lol 11 months ago
Nonante! And 80 is octante or huitante depending on the region It is a little simpler than this base20 thing lol
ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 11 months ago
and how high did OP have to count before he touched somebody else’s lips the first time?
philthi@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is my favourite shower thought post so far.
Tagger@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Un, dau, tri, pedwar. Nope, they touch at what you call four.
oppy1984@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Just counted out loud, one…lips touched.
reddig33@lemmy.world 11 months 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).
hakase@lemm.ee 11 months 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 11 months ago
screw googling. try saying it yourself without touching lips.
it comes out as “oen”.
oppy1984@lemm.ee 11 months 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.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Mine touch at sebbin.