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 🇺🇦
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    120 days ago

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

    • KubeRoot
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      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”