One point five… d’oh!
Made me silently count to ten to confirm. Mind expanded.
I’m still counting
they do if u kiss me
They do if you kiss yourself in the mirror, but only on the lips
You can only kiss your lips in the mirror
Huh. Same in Dutch!
I love this! It doesn’t seem like it could possibly be true, but my 30 seconds of testing haven’t debunked it.
Fümf
Lies.
Fem :(
Kolme - that’s 3 in Finnish
Sieben
Siem
Sieben
In English*
Yup, I can’t get past 5 in Norwegian.
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
Portuguese: 1 (um)
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.
Nope, for me my bottom teeth touch my upper lips.
My upper teeth touch my bottom lip when I do.
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.
I cover my bottom teeth with my bottom lip at the start so the lips touch on ‘four’
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.
Thought the same, but you’re right, putting both lips together makes a plosive.
correct me if I’m wrong, but it’s up to 1000 in Spanish, right? I’m wondering if I’m saying 9 right.
Egy, kettő, három
3 in hungarian
Maybe, but how long do you have to count for your eyelids to touch?
In Belgian French it’s 70, and in French² it’s 1000
Joke’s on you, I’m Roman.
My lips already touch at 𝕄.Oh shiiit thats trippy!
En, to, tre, fire, fem.
1000000 / 5 = 200000
Here’s the proof that Danish is 200.000 times better than English.
In romanian, it ends at 4. Romanian is 25% better than dutch and 250000 times better than english
250000 times better than english
That’s a very low bar tho
1 more and you learn why Swedish is superior.
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 😁
