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minus-square0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up47·2 days agoThis is how I felt as a kid when my peers insisted the thumb is not a finger. Like what are you talking about bro? If I asked before this came up, you’d have said you have ten fingers, not eight.
minus-square🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18arrow-down1·2 days agothis is how I feel as a Spanish speaker when English tell me toes aren’t fingers
minus-squaresamus12345@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·edit-22 days agoIn English, they aren’t. Toes and fingers are both digits, but not both toes or fingers.
minus-square🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·2 days agoI acknowledge that you are right, however I also acknowledge that I don’t like it and I rather be wrong about it Language created a thing where Spanish speaker have twice the finger than English speakers.
minus-squaresamus12345@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 days agoYou can always call them foot fingers in English if you like, although you might get some strange looks.
minus-square🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 days agoto differentiate them from hand toes
This is how I felt as a kid when my peers insisted the thumb is not a finger. Like what are you talking about bro? If I asked before this came up, you’d have said you have ten fingers, not eight.
this is how I feel as a Spanish speaker when English tell me toes aren’t fingers
In English, they aren’t. Toes and fingers are both digits, but not both toes or fingers.
I acknowledge that you are right, however I also acknowledge that I don’t like it and I rather be wrong about it
Language created a thing where Spanish speaker have twice the finger than English speakers.
You can always call them foot fingers in English if you like, although you might get some strange looks.
to differentiate them from hand toes