Post AdcXR2OGp2TkdvcrVg by uastronomer@mastodon.monoceros.co.za
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 (DIR) Post #AdcXNr8AEHXcqvZiYS by jubiloMX@toot.community
       2024-01-07T17:29:40Z
       
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       Thinking in English...how many fingers does a person have...? ✋🏽🦶🏼Please #retoot to get to more people#Fingers #thumbs #english #lang_en
       
 (DIR) Post #AdcXNsv7ZkISP3UKVE by freemo@qoto.org
       2024-01-08T01:27:44Z
       
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       @jubiloMX Everyone has 2 thumbs and 10 fingers. The dictionary states it quite clearly as well:: any of the five terminating members of the hand : a digit of the forelimbespecially : one other than the thumb
       
 (DIR) Post #AdcXR2OGp2TkdvcrVg by uastronomer@mastodon.monoceros.co.za
       2024-01-07T20:05:48Z
       
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       @jubiloMX Yeah, thumbs are just thick stumpy fingers that are attached to the wrist instead of the end of the hand. So they're a different kind if finger.So we've got two types of fingers: Thumbs, which have a special name to differentiate them from the regular type, and regular fingers (which don't have a special name).Although now I think about it, I suppose TECHNICALLY we should really say that fingers and thumbs are different separate things, and they are both a type of digit (in which case, we have 10 digits, of which 8 are fingers and 2 are thumbs), but in practice, in actual daily use of English, we don't do that.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdcXR3XAZRBwBonU1I by HighlandLawyer@mastodon.social
       2024-01-07T20:13:43Z
       
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       @uastronomer @jubiloMX Pinkies have a special name. Possibly due to being the other "outside" finger like the thumb.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdcXR4r3eyh8Hn6seu by freemo@qoto.org
       2024-01-08T01:28:18Z
       
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       @HighlandLawyer All fingers have special names.@uastronomer @jubiloMX
       
 (DIR) Post #AdcXWcCt5KxdAoxenw by jubiloMX@toot.community
       2024-01-08T01:29:22Z
       
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       @freemo if I wanted the dictionary definition I would grab a dictionary... I wanted so see how people think...
       
 (DIR) Post #AdcXdaRi1xVHjtDasq by freemo@qoto.org
       2024-01-08T01:30:37Z
       
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       @jubiloMX And that is exactly what I gave you. I am a technical thinker. Words mean what the dictionary says they mean outside of any special context.