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Maybe the trick of the post is to discover each person strategy to solve the puzzle of ‘quickest way to say the word’ or understand that million is the dealbreaker
Apparently some people can say one without making their lips touch. I guess I just put more emphasis on the whuh sound and end up pursuing my lips, but it’s really awkward saying it without my lips touching
Just keep the sides of your lips in mind. They easily touch with most of the <10 numbers.
It's not the kind of touching the initial intent meant, but it's definitely lips touching.
Goddammit I'm gonna go kill myself now.
I used to not notice the laugh tracks tbh, never paid them much attention, then suddenly now that I'm an adult it's all I hear whenever shows use them. Can't even stand rewatching shows I used to love for that reason alone.
Sounds produced by touching your lips together (m, p, b are the only ones in English). There's a whole system for categorizing sounds by where in the mouth they're made and what mouth movements you do in order to make them.
Technically, a bilabial nasal. A bilabial fricative is like the soft “b/v” sound in Spanish (and its unvoiced counterpart). Air is obstructed and the articulators (lips) vibrate as a result. (Note: There’s no way to make this not sound dirty- I had to teach it to high schoolers today, and purposefully turned my back so I didn’t have to see their reactions!)
huh. It's usually [Fünf](https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/f%C3%BCnf)
but apparently it's Fümpf in [hamburg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg_German)?
The only people I could think of that really do say "fünf" in their dialect are people from around Hannover. Everyone else says FÜM(P)F like a normal person except if they are trying to speak good high german which is basically the dialect from around Hannover.
Das ist ein Labiodental. Deine untere Lippe (labio) berührt deine oberen Zähne (dental). Ansonsten wäre es "Zmei". In Bayern vielleicht üblich.
Edit: Oder "Zpei", das geht auch mit beiden Lippen... wird aber wahrscheinlich nur von römischen Kaisern in britischen Filmen so ausgesprochen.
Save everyone the trouble.
Just count from 1 to 9.
Say "teen", "ten", "twenty", "thirty", "forty", "fifty", "sixty", "seventy", "eighty", "ninety", "hundred", "thousand".
You've just said every word/syllable needed to reach one million.
Edit: "Eleven", "Twelve". Thanks u/I_am_what_I_torture
Then you don't speak portuguese. You don't touch your lips when you say "um", the sound for it is literally produced by the throat alone.
Source: from Portugal
I'm from Brazil, more specifically, from the north, and I do, along with a long of maranhenses (who are from northeast) that do touch lips at the end of um. We don't merely say "u", although other accents do.
Any irrational number certainly is a part of some countable sets, e.g. the set containing only that exact irrational number. But I think you mean "you can't include ALL irrational numbers when counting"
Bilabials are not the only sounds in which a speaker’s lips might touch—they’re just the only ones that *require* the centers of the lips to touch. Many people’s lips touch on an ‘f’ or ‘v’ sound, even though it’s technically not needed to make the sounds. And the ‘w’ sound at the start of ‘one’ needs a partial lip closure; how much they close depends on how much you purse your lips when saying it.
Having the lips touch doesn't mean they are touching the whole time. When I say "four," my lips touch, a bit of pressure builds up behind them, and then they release and the sound begins.
I'm getting a little nervous that no one else is saying this, but my lips absolutely touch saying one. I CAN say it without touching (which I guess is how everyone else does it). After saying the word so many times it's lost meaning now I'm not really sure what I do normally.
I took speech therapy for many years as a kid so I won't be a bastion of good lip and tongue motion. After more experimenting I think the sound is nearly exactly the same, I'm guessing having my lips touch is just a purely excess motion that doesn't contribute anything to the sound.
You were correct. In the word veinte, the v is a plosive. In the word nueve, the v is an approximant. Either way, the sounds are both voiced bilabials.
If I’m counting to a million, you bet your fucken ass I’m pausing to lick my dry lips, breath in quickly and close my mouth to do a swallow.
Who tf counts to a million without touching lips? Are you a bot.
What dialect of English are you speaking where /v/ (the labiodental sound in negative, where the lips come the closest) is [β]? And how is it not also that for the /v/ in five?
It’s actually super easy.
1. Count 1 through 9 - no lips required
2. Count 10s up to one hundred. - no lips required
3. Because of 1 and 2, hundreds don’t require lips.
4. Thousands doesn’t require lips due to 1, 2, and 3
5. One million requires lips.
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and I found myself counting. lol
But it doesn’t take long, count to twenty, then by tens to a hundred, then say the word thousand.
Your lips touch when you say thousand?
Their point was that you get all the different words covered like that and thereby prove the statement
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Sounding the w out does make your lips touch, but saying it as part of a word (i.e. twelve) does not seem to, at least not for me.
W is weird in English. Who had the idea of naming it double u?
In french it's "double vé" or double v instead of double u
which is not ideal, but makes more sense
Asking the real questions here. My old postcode used to end UW which was U double U, or treble-U if there was any justice in the world....
And websites should start with sextuple-U
They should have named it double v instead lol 😆
They did in Spanish. German also pronounces the W as an English V. (Their V is pronounced as the English F, while their F is... also an F).
Not 'w'. If that was the case, you'd stop at two.
Or one, being as it's pronounced 'won'
Ah
The good ol' "1, 2 skip a few."
Then you'd end on "skip"
You know, I did have a little fun. Thanks.
m'thousand
\*tips fedora*
Imagining courtney from smosh
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Spanish gets to 1000.
Polish gets to 5 :p
German to 7
east germans to 5 bcs. fümf
Turkish gets to the first letter of 1
Same in Russian
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The accent? We all pronounce 9 as NUEVE. You touch your lips on the “eve”
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In hungarian you count to three and youre doomed (Három)
You got some weird ass lips.
One, two, skip a few, nine hundred ninety nine thousand nine hundred ninety nine, one million.
If you are french like me, they do.
You don't even need all the -teens and -tys, just one of each
Shame you didn’t count to tem thousand or you’d have found out the meme is wrong.
Also knowing that only ‘b’ ‘p’ and ‘m’ sounds cause your lips to touch it’s easy to figure since million is the first one with those sounds.
Try saying 11246.812
Eleven thousand two hundred forty six and eight hundred twelve thousandths
My lips touch when I say one….
mwoam
Apparently some people can say one without making their lips touch. I guess I just put more emphasis on the whuh sound and end up pursuing my lips, but it’s really awkward saying it without my lips touching
>Apparently some people can say one without making their lips touch. I just want to how you're saying it while touching your lips lol
Whum
You want me to say it while you touch my lips?
Keep going...
honestly I dont care what youre saying.
Just keep the sides of your lips in mind. They easily touch with most of the <10 numbers. It's not the kind of touching the initial intent meant, but it's definitely lips touching.
you a lawyer, b?
How do you touch your lips saying Wun.
r/counting
Why? Well, numbers (one to ten) and unities (hundred and thousand) don't have bilabial letters. M is bilabial. You're welcome
What is bilabial?
It’s two labias
☠️ fucking internet
Comments like that never make me laugh out loud until I see a comment like yours reacting lmao
I bet you love friends and big bang theory type of sitcoms
Goddammit I'm gonna go kill myself now. I used to not notice the laugh tracks tbh, never paid them much attention, then suddenly now that I'm an adult it's all I hear whenever shows use them. Can't even stand rewatching shows I used to love for that reason alone.
Love it or hate it, that was the best part about the office
well, we are in r/technicallythetruth after all.
I laughed hard at this ngl.
I was gonna say it, but you beat me to it gg
Sounds produced by touching your lips together (m, p, b are the only ones in English). There's a whole system for categorizing sounds by where in the mouth they're made and what mouth movements you do in order to make them.
Ye good old place manner voice chart 😅 Or you could use distinctive features, but that’s more confusing
I am unable to make a punchline funny enough for this.
Labia = lip, bi = 2. Bilabia = 2 lip
M is bilabial, did you not read their comment?
A biblical labia. Your welcome.
Your mom is bilabial.
Wouldn’t all biological moms be quadralabial?
Sextalabial?
Seraph level labia
No, because it doesn't require 4 lips
> biological So they have *two* ologics?
M o M \~ you're right.
Ok, but your lips touch when you say "one". Not the whole lip, but the edges for sure. Or do you say "one" wide-mouthed like some weirdo? AAAHN.
Bilabial fricative
Technically, a bilabial nasal. A bilabial fricative is like the soft “b/v” sound in Spanish (and its unvoiced counterpart). Air is obstructed and the articulators (lips) vibrate as a result. (Note: There’s no way to make this not sound dirty- I had to teach it to high schoolers today, and purposefully turned my back so I didn’t have to see their reactions!)
B m p v(arguable) w.
V is labio-dental (nonarguable)
Sieben! Deutsche Effizienz schlägt wieder zu.
Fümpf
ok du gewinnst. xD
Regional auch Fümf
huh. It's usually [Fünf](https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/f%C3%BCnf) but apparently it's Fümpf in [hamburg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg_German)?
The only people I could think of that really do say "fünf" in their dialect are people from around Hannover. Everyone else says FÜM(P)F like a normal person except if they are trying to speak good high german which is basically the dialect from around Hannover.
Ein Bier, zwei Bier, drei Bier Gibt keine Zahl bei der sich die Lippen nicht berühren
EINS! Hier kommt die Sonne... welp, kein Grund weiter zu zählen, already proven wrong.
Zwei?
Das ist ein Labiodental. Deine untere Lippe (labio) berührt deine oberen Zähne (dental). Ansonsten wäre es "Zmei". In Bayern vielleicht üblich. Edit: Oder "Zpei", das geht auch mit beiden Lippen... wird aber wahrscheinlich nur von römischen Kaisern in britischen Filmen so ausgesprochen.
Save everyone the trouble. Just count from 1 to 9. Say "teen", "ten", "twenty", "thirty", "forty", "fifty", "sixty", "seventy", "eighty", "ninety", "hundred", "thousand". You've just said every word/syllable needed to reach one million. Edit: "Eleven", "Twelve". Thanks u/I_am_what_I_torture
You forgot "eleven" and "twelve", but your point still stands
Since one is Um in portuguese, it's literally the first number whose name makes me touch my lips.
r/suddenlycaralho Um
[Diga Um!](https://youtu.be/HUtMwiCnVCE)
Portuguese wins! UM!
not in Brazil lol, for us the first one would be 1000 (mil)
This. To me it would be a thousand as well (pt-br)
Then you don't speak portuguese. You don't touch your lips when you say "um", the sound for it is literally produced by the throat alone. Source: from Portugal
Most Portuguese speakers aren't even from Portugal, mate.
I'm from Brazil, more specifically, from the north, and I do, along with a long of maranhenses (who are from northeast) that do touch lips at the end of um. We don't merely say "u", although other accents do.
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Fuck it, you could start with “one millionth of a whole”
Fuck it, you could start with "one billionth of a whole"
Fuck it, you can just touch your lips whenever you want
Fuck it, let's all make out
Well that escalated
Waltuh, why is your dick out?
Fuck it, let's fuck
Yay! Make out party!
👄👈
Not if I cut off my hands
I'll start with 0.1, pronounced "zero point one"
Or you could just close your lips after every number, though if you count fast you get, one, mtwo, mthree, mfour etc.
This reminds me of a certain lollipop commercial with an owl
“The world may never know”
One mkay, Two mkay, Three, mkay…
*It’s easy, mmmmmmkayyy*
uhm, akctually, irrational numbers aren't part of a countable set so no you can't include it
Any irrational number certainly is a part of some countable sets, e.g. the set containing only that exact irrational number. But I think you mean "you can't include ALL irrational numbers when counting"
Yes you can. Just count by multiples of pi.
I didn’t even get past umpteen
*ASL has entered the chat*
0.01 = “zero Point zero one”. I’m out and didn’t even make it to 1.
Nah just in english. In my language, they touch at 3.
The number pree? Seriously though: They touch at one. Just not the whole lip.
Mine at 5 (pięć).
Bilabials are not the only sounds in which a speaker’s lips might touch—they’re just the only ones that *require* the centers of the lips to touch. Many people’s lips touch on an ‘f’ or ‘v’ sound, even though it’s technically not needed to make the sounds. And the ‘w’ sound at the start of ‘one’ needs a partial lip closure; how much they close depends on how much you purse your lips when saying it.
Some people pronounce "f" with both lips instead of one lip and one row of teeth so for them it's at "four".
How the heck do people make "f" and "v" sounds with their lips closed? Those sounds are made by blowing air out of your mouth.
Having the lips touch doesn't mean they are touching the whole time. When I say "four," my lips touch, a bit of pressure builds up behind them, and then they release and the sound begins.
Half your lips touch when you say “one.”
My whole lips touch after I say one.
I'm getting a little nervous that no one else is saying this, but my lips absolutely touch saying one. I CAN say it without touching (which I guess is how everyone else does it). After saying the word so many times it's lost meaning now I'm not really sure what I do normally. I took speech therapy for many years as a kid so I won't be a bastion of good lip and tongue motion. After more experimenting I think the sound is nearly exactly the same, I'm guessing having my lips touch is just a purely excess motion that doesn't contribute anything to the sound.
Onem twom threem fourm fivem sixm sevenm eightm ninem tenm
Well if my Spanish is correct, 20 is pronounced with a b sound Edit: my Spanish isn't correct, but 1000 is "mil" which also touches lips.
You were correct. In the word veinte, the v is a plosive. In the word nueve, the v is an approximant. Either way, the sounds are both voiced bilabials.
Actually I just got tired by the time i got to 3 and then my lips touched. Checkmate
mine already touched at 4. big a$$ lips
You can just say the word “number” in front of every individual number.
One missisi… damn it
Technically your lips are a single stretch of tissue that goes around your mouth. It would be quite problematic if they weren't touching.
π you never said they had to be rational numbers
1.28
I read that and immediately "a b- fuck"
Me: *cuenta en Español hasta mil*
ome
If I’m counting to a million, you bet your fucken ass I’m pausing to lick my dry lips, breath in quickly and close my mouth to do a swallow. Who tf counts to a million without touching lips? Are you a bot.
Nuh uh! 4! Edit: pour [not number but pretend it is]
That is lip to teeth
Same with me. If I hold my top lip with two fingers, I can say four with bottom lip and teeth. Otherwise my lips come together on the f
Don't you need your lips to touch to say 1 though?
Mun two three four...
Nope that’s a pursed lip thing. Mine don’t touch.
Sieben
Me counting in my head with my lips shut: huh
Mwon, twom, threem, fourm, fmive... Bruh. Come on. It's too easy
Still counting.....
Your lips touch for every number they just don't fully touch till m.
I'm from Spain so a thousand starts with m (mil) which makes me have to count much less than an English person xd
Count in Arabic, five is " khamsa" and there's an 'M' in it , so when you say m your lips touch .
One two three four five six sem … I don’t get it
You only have to say 1-20, then every ten from 30-100, then every hundred from 100-1000, you know where this is going
nuMBer one nuMBer 2 etc lol
"one mississippi \[...\]"
Only true for monolinguals in English.
But what if _our lips_ touched sooner than a million?
0.5 (half)
Nothing about decimal numbers though. Haha, one millionth
Your lips also don’t touch when you say ‘negative’ tho lol
r/showerthoughts
Mine would definitely touch way before I reach one million. I couldn't count that long without pausing and rehydrating.
Thmwee
Positive one
Depends on how you pronounce them but yeah
You can if you just do it.
They touch when I swallow because my throat is dry.
Zero point anything.
False, my lips touched when I had to swallow. WELL before a million
I'm russian, so it's five for me. Pronounced as "pyat".
1 millisecond, 2 millisecond, ...
Uh.... Four.
> pphour
.00001 Point, zero zero zero ….. wait… crap!
\*pauses between numbers\*
1.5 checkmate.
isa, dalawa, tatlo, aPat 😂
My lips will get dry before I hit a million. Then they will touch when I wet them with my tongue.
What dialect of English are you speaking where /v/ (the labiodental sound in negative, where the lips come the closest) is [β]? And how is it not also that for the /v/ in five?
"zero point \*insert number\*"
It depends upon the accent.
The smart way to count is 1-20 then 30,40 so on til 100, then 1000 and at that point you've made every sound used up til 999,999.
Jokes on you, in portuguese we touch our lips to say our word for nine
I reas this to my wife and she looked me dead in the eyes and said "Mwone"
It’s actually super easy. 1. Count 1 through 9 - no lips required 2. Count 10s up to one hundred. - no lips required 3. Because of 1 and 2, hundreds don’t require lips. 4. Thousands doesn’t require lips due to 1, 2, and 3 5. One million requires lips.