Your middle finger is only your middle finger if you also count your thumb as a finger. Which I find hard to accept. @showerthoughts 🖕

  • rockerface 🇺🇦
    3•20 days ago

    In almost every other language there isn’t even a separate word for “thumb”, it’s just one of the fingers.

    • KubeRootEnglish
      3•20 days ago

      I don’t think that’s right? I know polish has a separate word, and sampling in Google translate seems to show separate words in German, french and Spanish. Maybe I got lucky and hit the exceptions, but it seems to commonly be a separate word.

      • rockerface 🇺🇦
        1•20 days ago

        Do other fingers get their own names in those languages, though? Or is thumb special, like in English?

        • KubeRootEnglish
          1•20 days ago

          Not sure about other languages, but in polish the thumb is “kciuk”, while the rest are variants on finger - “palec wskazujący”, “palec środkowy”

          Edit: checking google translate, German seems to be the same, with the thumb being a distinct word, and the rest being compound words of “finger”