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 5 weeks ago by DeadNinja@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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adarza@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Engywuck@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Not if you count using a logarithmic base 10 scale!
kernelle@0d.gs 5 weeks ago
Just yell 10! and you’ve counted way further already
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
When the thoughts get so deep you turn the water off and just stand there.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
In English*
espentan@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Yup, I can’t get past 5 in Norwegian.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
I got to three ín Hungarian and seven in German.
JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
they do if u kiss me
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
They do if you kiss yourself in the mirror, but only on the lips
SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
You can only kiss your lips in the mirror
djmikeale@lemm.ee 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
In romanian, it ends at 4. Romanian is 25% better than dutch and 250000 times better than english
ICastFist@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
250000 times better than english
That’s a very low bar tho
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
1 more and you learn why Swedish is superior.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
One more and Germans get in on the action. And they get to say sechs (sex) right before.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
As long as you have that ridiculous “to og en halvfjers” counting system, you do not have a superior system 😉
djmikeale@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Haha! Yeah truth be told, our number system is completely stupid 😂
bremen15@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Found the american.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I only have to count to 5
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
DampCanary@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
same, but it’s pet (five)
samus12345@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
It applies to any English-speaking country, which makes sense since it’s written in English.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
And then they keep touching until 1 trillion
Whulum@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Oh shiiit wtf!
wieson@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
7 sieben, Bruder
Drekaridill@feddit.is 5 weeks ago
5 fimm, bróðir
sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Fümf
Lies.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Sieben
nore@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Portuguese: 1 (um)
Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Is this this case in Brasil? In european portuguese your lips don’t touch for um
nore@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Yeah, forgot to specify ;P
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
!remindme sixty years when i confirm
Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
We do miss that not here.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
Made me silently count to ten to confirm. Mind expanded.
BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’m still counting
superkret@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Joke’s on you, I’m Roman.
My lips already touch at 𝕄.KammicRelief@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
One point five… d’oh!
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
π
collapse_already@lemmy.ml 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
Nope, for me my bottom teeth touch my upper lips.
topherclay@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
My upper teeth touch my bottom lip when I do.
Siethron@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I cover my bottom teeth with my bottom lip at the start so the lips touch on ‘four’
myfavouritename@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
Thought the same, but you’re right, putting both lips together makes a plosive.
Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Unless I do it in my native language, Finnish. Then I’ll only get to three.
mastertigurius@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Norwegians are the supreme Scandinavians. We can count to five.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Mine touch at pebenty peben.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
Egy, kettő, három
3 in hungarian
ianfraserkrillmaster@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
ce, ome, yei, nahui (Nahuatl)
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
I guess you win
Dicska@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Maybe, but how long do you have to count for your eyelids to touch?
Labna@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
How to say 90 in Swiss French? In French French the (40x2+10) way drives me crazy
Hack3900@lemy.lol 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
[OFF TOPIC]
TIL there are italic emojis. 🤌
oppy1984@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Just counted out loud, one…lips touched.
reddig33@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
screw googling. try saying it yourself without touching lips.
it comes out as “oen”.
oppy1984@lemm.ee 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
and how high did OP have to count before he touched somebody else’s lips the first time?
ianfraserkrillmaster@midwest.social 5 weeks ago
what about thirmty three
philthi@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This is my favourite shower thought post so far.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Mine touch at sebbin.
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 5 weeks ago
Huh. Same in Dutch!
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Not in German tho. Sieben
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
Un, dau, tri, pedwar. Nope, they touch at what you call four.
bizarroland@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
forget what number you’re on and say, “um”.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 weeks ago
What if I say “um” somewhere because I lost my place?
Flagstaff@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Then