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!
that's one hell of a water bill if you were in the shower counting to one million.
When the thoughts get so deep you turn the water off and just stand there.
Not if you count using a logarithmic base 10 scale!
Just yell 10! and you've counted way further already
Unless I do it in my native language, Finnish. Then I'll only get to three.
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Four, five, ...
F is still not lip-to-lip, because air is leaking out your mouth between teeth and lip.
M, all the air comes out your nose, mouth is closed.
N, it's your tongue stopping the air and sending it through your nose, lips are open.
Easily verifiable by counting to from 0 to 10.
No (assuming English language) you'd need to count to 0-10 and then 12-15, and then 1000 as teens don't match the normal number pronunciation exactly and 1000 brings in the thousand sound.
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I didn't realize till now I must say 4 incorrectly. My cheeks come in, lips extend outward and mostly touch except a small hole in front of my front teeth, where my top teeth rest on top of my bottom lip. Almost like a lite whistle motion void the teeth touching my lip.
I must say 4 incorrectly
I move my lips the same way you do. Another poster mentioned four, five as well.
It's not incorrect though - there's not really such a thing as pronouncing incorrectly. People just speak how they speak and it's always changing.
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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.
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 😁
In romanian, it ends at 4. Romanian is 25% better than dutch and 250000 times better than english
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One? Twenty one? One hundred? Gotta make that closed lip W sound for “one”.
Unless you’re counting in French. But then, soixante trois?
Nah, definitely happens at 300 with 三百
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forget what number you're on and say, "um".
Just counted out loud, one....lips touched.
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).
screw googling. try saying it yourself without touching lips.
it comes out as "oen".
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Un, dau, tri, pedwar. Nope, they touch at what you call four.
This is my favourite shower thought post so far.
and how high did OP have to count before he touched somebody else's lips the first time?
My lips touch when I say one.
jedem?
7 sieben, Bruder
5 fimm, bróðir
In a lot of Indo-European languages you're stopping right at 5, *pénkʷe. For example Greek (πέντε pénte) and Sanskrit (पञ्चन् páñcan).
一 二 三 四 五 六 七 八
8 “ba”
是的，我是美国人。我的文法很不好。
Oh shiiit thats trippy!
Three, two, one, zero, minus one.
Un deux trois... Mille ! In French (France 🇫🇷) 1000 before lips touch.
... Soixante-neuf, septante ! In French (Switzerland 🇨🇭) 70! (in France it's soixante-dix 😂)
How to say 90 in Swiss French? In French French the (40x2+10) way drives me crazy
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Joke's on you, I'm Roman.
My lips already touch at 𝕄.
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