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    DeadNinja@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 month ago

    When you count, your lips don't touch until 1 million.

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    When you count, your lips don't touch until 1 million.

    DeadNinja@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 1 month ago
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    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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      What if I say “um” somewhere because I lost my place?

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        Then it’s your fault for not saying “uh” instead!

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

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        Not if you count using a logarithmic base 10 scale!

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          Just yell 10! and you’ve counted way further already

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        When the thoughts get so deep you turn the water off and just stand there.

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      In English*

      • espentan@lemmy.world
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        Yup, I can’t get past 5 in Norwegian.

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          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

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            Yes, it’s ‘fem’ in Norwegian, too…

        • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
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          I got to three ín Hungarian.

    • 58008@lemmy.world
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      they do if u kiss me

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        They do if you kiss yourself in the mirror, but only on the lips

        • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip
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          You can only kiss your lips in the mirror

          • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz
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            Wise man once said.

            Another thought to disturb restful slumber, especially if you are vain: in a mirror you can kiss yourself only on the lips.

            • ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              Geez, how many accounts does Neil have here…

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                Not enough, Lemmy is embarrassingly credulous at times.

    • djmikeale@lemm.ee
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      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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        In romanian, it ends at 4. Romanian is 25% better than dutch and 250000 times better than english

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          250000 times better than english

          That’s a very low bar tho

      • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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        1 more and you learn why Swedish is superior.

        • anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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          One more and Germans get in on the action. And they get to say sechs (sex) right before.

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        As long as you have that ridiculous “to og en halvfjers” counting system, you do not have a superior system 😉

        • djmikeale@lemm.ee
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          Haha! Yeah truth be told, our number system is completely stupid 😂

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            Besides the number system you got most things under control in Denmark.

            You also have one of the greatest shows, Klovn 😂

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              Well thank you! Although I find Klovn to be too cringe for me, I do agree on the other statement, I feel incredibly lucky to be born here, where even born into unfortunate circumstances, it’s still possible to get a successful life.

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                I have watched every episode, it’s hilarious. Episodes ranging from them trying “the godfather of drugs” (heroin), to him stealing a wheelchair. I guess it might be too much for some people though, my wife can not watch it for similar reasons.

                I feel the same way about being born in Norway. I come from unfortunate circumstances as you call it, and I am doing well. This is thanks to the extensive free education that I have gotten.

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        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 😁

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      Found the american.

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        I only have to count to 5

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          fem?

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            Ja

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              Don’t laugh at him it’s not nice.

        • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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          https://youtu.be/u8ccGjar4Es

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          same, but it’s pet (five)

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        It applies to any English-speaking country, which makes sense since it’s written in English.

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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.

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      My lips touch when I say one.

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        jedem?

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          dwa?

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        deleted by creator

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      And then they touch for every number until 1 trillion

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      7 sieben, Bruder

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        5 fimm, bróðir

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      Fümf

      Lies.

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        Sieben

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        Fem :(

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          Kolme - that’s 3 in Finnish

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        Sieben

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          Siem

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      Oh shiiit thats trippy!

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      Portuguese (Brasil): 1 (um)

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        Is this this case in Brasil? In european portuguese your lips don’t touch for um

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          Yeah, forgot to specify ;P

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      !remindme sixty years when i confirm

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        We do miss that bot here.

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          there was this one but it had to be whitelisted and i didnt want to spam so i just faked it :)

          https://github.com/PangoraWeb/remindme-bot

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

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        I’m still counting

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