Fingers

Tom_77 wrote:

Are you looking for someone with 6 fingers?

Or what about Franky Four Fingers. If we've all got 4 fingers on each hand, What's so weird about Franky?!

When you slap hands with another person, do you call it a 'high four'?

Or do you call cut off gloves 'fingerless and thumbless gloves'?

When you were little and asked to 'use your fingers' to count, could you only get up to eight before you had to stop?

chrisonatrike wrote:

I'm a digitalist myself; I can go up to 20 on my distal appendages.

Speakers of Telefol use parts of their arm, their ears, eyes and nose and thus have a base-27 counting system - which no doubt seems perfectly natural to them.

We should accept the fact of evolution though - no-one's lobbying for them to be called "fin rays"*.

* Except the odd sarcastic Creationist maybe.

One of my kids asked me why there are 60 seconds in a minute and not 10 or 100. I showed her how to count to 60 using her hands. My wife was watching and I thought her head was going to explode.