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*

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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…

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I got to three ín Hungarian.

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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

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1 more and you learn why Swedish is superior.

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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 😉

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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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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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they do if u kiss me

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

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You can only kiss your lips in the mirror

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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.

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