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Want to find out someone’s native language? Ask them how many fingers they have
- tedunangst 17y agoWrong. Every native English speaker I know would answer 10 fingers.
- ojbyrne 17y agoAs a native English speaker my answer would be ten. Second most likely would be five. I'd be unlikely to ever say eight.
- Terretta 17y agoConceivably, if asked as a science question: "How many fingers does a gorilla have on each hand?" One might hear, in English, "Four fingers and a thumb." Otherwise, as a native English speaker, when asked "How many figures do you have?" I'm answering "ten".
- NickPollard 17y agoAs an Englishman, I'd say 8 fingers. Then again, I'm also quite pedantic, I figure some people would definitely say 10, but I wonder if it's a transatlantic thing.
- frodwith 17y ago"It turns out that..."