Your middle finger is only your middle finger if you also count your thumb as a finger. Which I find hard to accept. @showerthoughts π
This is like the square/rectangle thing: βNot all fingers are thumbs, but all thumbs are fingersβ.
I swear one of these days Iβm gonna dive into Wikipedia and find the name for that kinda relationship
The thumb is thicker than other digits so naturally itβll be harder to accept. A lubricant may help but the key is to relax and go slow.
Itβs pretty normal to count the thumb as a finger. I find it strange that you would not.
If you were asked βhow many fingers do you haveβ, would you answer 8, or 10? Surely, everyone knows the answer is 10 (assuming no physical abnormalities)? On a fingering chart, music will instruct you to play a note with your thumb with the number β1β and your pinky with the number β5β.
The whole concept of even having a middle finger is a bit arbitrary. When you put your hands on a table, all 10 fingers spread out, the gap between the hands is the exact middle. If you include all 10 fingers, there is no middle finger, but there is a middle gap.
Andy why do we even count the fleshy fingers, when we could be counting the gaps between them? Itβs the number of gaps that really matters when youβre holding on to a bunch of things like papers, magazines, forks, sticks, stones, strings, cables or whatever.
Sure, but we donβt say you have one middle finger, we talk about the two middle fingers. As in, one per hand. Itβs not the middle of all your fingers, itβs the middle of the fingers on that hand.
We donβt count the gabs because thatβsβ¦not how counting things works. When delivering a bag of apples, you donβt count how many gaps between apples there are, you count the number of apples. You have to know that your second paragraph here is a stretch that would make a Republican lawmaker seem sensible, donβt you?
Andy why do we even count the fleshy fingers, when we could be counting the gaps between them?
Each finger is conveniently split into 3 parts. Using 8 fingers we can count to 24 without resorting to any fancy math.
Actually can count to 144 or a gross if you use base 12. One hand for the ones place and the other hand for the dozens.
Thatβs the point most westerners seem to miss. There are so many ways to use fingers to count, while the one common in Europe the simplest one possible. Itβs like demo version, while some other countries get the full pro ultra max edition.
You take one hand and count with the thumb as 1 and the pinky as 5 and the middle number is 3. If you switch and start with the pinky as 1 and the thumb as 5 the middle finger is still the middle number. Talking about the gaps can be useful but anatomically we name things for whatβs there and whatβs not there and we talk about fingers much more than we talk about the gaps
What do you consider the thumb to be if not another finger?
Its a thumb. Its its own thing. If we had only 5 fingers we would be INFERIOR BEINGS
glares at spider monkies
Edit: apparently sponkeys have 4 fingers on their hands and thumbs on their feet
Nah itβs the thumb finger, like the index finger etc. We have fully truncated it to just thumb because of how it feels more unique to the others. Doesnβt mean it no longer fits the categorisation though.
We have fully truncated it to just thumb because of how it feels more unique to the others
Kinda like the goalie on a hockey team or the drummer in a band. Still on the team, just a bit weirder.
Its a thumb. Its oppsable. If you had 2+ thumbs on each hand we would probably differentiate them more
You donβt consider a thumb a finger? What is it then in your world? Tail?
There are ten digits in our numeral system, and the thumb is neither a 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9.
first of all, there exist more than one numeral system. Ex. I, X, V, A, B, C, D, E, F,etc
