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[–] 84 points 1 year ago (1 child)

What if I say "um" somewhere because I lost my place?

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  • [–] 69 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    that's one hell of a water bill if you were in the shower counting to one million.

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    En, to, tre, fire, fem.

    1000000 / 5 = 200000

    Here's the proof that Danish is 200.000 times better than English.

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    [–] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    I love this! It doesn't seem like it could possibly be true, but my 30 seconds of testing haven't debunked it.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago*

    And then they touch for every number until 1 trillion

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    My lips touch when I say one.

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    [–] 15 points 1 year ago*

    Oh shiiit thats trippy!

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Portuguese (Brasil): 1 (um)

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    [–] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)
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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    !remindme sixty years when i confirm

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    [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Made me silently count to ten to confirm. Mind expanded.

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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Unless I do it in my native language, Finnish. Then I'll only get to three.

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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Mine touch at pebenty peben.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Egy, kettő, három

    3 in hungarian

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    [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Joke's on you, I'm Roman.
    My lips already touch at 𝕄.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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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    [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    and how high did OP have to count before he touched somebody else's lips the first time?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Just counted out loud, one....lips touched.

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Nope, for me my bottom teeth touch my upper lips.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • what about thirmty three

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Nah, definitely happens at 300 with 三百

    Edit: in japanese, but I didn't list my language since OP didn't bother.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    This is my favourite shower thought post so far.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    forget what number you're on and say, "um".

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Un, dau, tri, pedwar. Nope, they touch at what you call four.

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