they don't count thumbs as fingers
2006-11-15 22:04:04 · 13 answers · asked by whoami 2 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
no thumbs arent counted as fingers, 8 fingers 2 thumbs or 10 digits! not sure about toes though cos you have 10 of them! - weird.good question though( mind you at the hospital when my kids were born theyve always said 10 fingers and 10 toes when counting).......
2006-11-16 07:06:43 · answer #1 · answered by thundercatbabe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
8 fingers 2 thumbs!
2006-11-16 06:07:41 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
2 thumbs
2006-11-16 06:11:12 · answer #3 · answered by uk_duggy_uk 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
fingers are usually regarded as the hand-digits that do most of the work. However, in modern times the use of texting (via mobile phones) has started to change that...
in other languages thumbs are usually referred to as fingers - there's no differentiation. (eg. Spanish finger = dedo, thumb = dedo. The spanish people don't understand the english way of talking about the fingers and thumbs as two different entities...). Aren't we as Brits weird?!?!
2006-11-16 06:08:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
If thumbs were considered fingers, they wouldn't be called "thumbs". Sounds silly I know, but it's the truth.
When some tells you they hurt their finger, do you think of their thumb or one of their fingers? Unless they say 'thumb' I always think one of the fingers.
2006-11-16 06:07:44 · answer #5 · answered by Lucianna 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
its because we do have 8 fingers and 2 thumbs,we dont count our thumbs as fingers.
2006-11-16 06:06:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Some people think of language, especially nouns ('labels') as fixed or definite.
Other people think of meaning ('intention') as fixed.
In fact, we only have a very vague grip on what we actually mean (like, are you talking about a jointy thing hanging off a hand, or a thing you poke buttons with in the lift?), and words change their meanings every time they are used (when I last said 'finger', did I mean EXACTLY what I meant the previous time?)
When we use a word, we're only guessing what the person hearing or reading it will think we meant. Often, we're wrong, but we only find out occasionally.
2006-11-16 07:28:08 · answer #7 · answered by Fitology 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no we dont count our thumbs as fingers! so we have 8 fingers and two thumbs, strange i know, but then we could go on to say things like why is jam called jam....ect!!
2006-11-16 06:06:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
yeah! but we have more fingers and thumbs then cartoon characters!!!x
2006-11-16 06:16:37 · answer #9 · answered by m 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's right yeah, do you win the 10 points now?
2006-11-16 06:11:42 · answer #10 · answered by Fu Manchu 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋