7 sieben, Bruder
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5 fimm, bróðir
and how high did OP have to count before he touched somebody else's lips the first time?
pięć [guess the language]
This is my favourite shower thought post so far.
Unless I do it in my native language, Finnish. Then I'll only get to three.
Norwegians are supreme in the Nordics. We can count to five.
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".
I guess we're all different, my lips definitely touched when saying one. There's got to be an outlier for everything I guess.
"Open sounds" (which, I assume, refers to continuants) and bilabial sounds aren't mutually exclusive.
When you pronounce the /w/ at the beginning of "one", your lips round (purse) and touch each other at the corners, but they don't form a full closure. So, the oral tract is still open, but the articulators (moving mouth parts) are still touching.
This could be reworded as "the middle of your lips don't touch each other", but multiple commenters are correct in that your lips absolutely do touch each other when you say "one" in English.
Un, dau, tri, pedwar. Nope, they touch at what you call four.
Nah, definitely happens at 300 with 三百
Edit: in japanese, but I didn't list my language since OP didn't bother.
八
In Chinese yes, in japanese, no (8 would be hachi, 300 is sanbyaku but that n before b is pronounced as m)
Empat
forget what number you're on and say, "um".
odin dva tri chetire Piat
5 in Russian
In a lot of Indo-European languages you're stopping right at 5, *pénkʷe. For example Greek (πέντε pénte) and Sanskrit (पञ्चन् páñcan).
Three, two, one, zero, minus one.
Its the m- like plosive thingy?
一 二 三 四 五 六 七 八
8 “ba”
是的，我是美国人。我的文法很不好。
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.