Four fingers and a thumb?

[_jade_em_]

"How many fingers am I holding up?"
"Uh ... five?"
"Nope, it's four fingers and a thumb! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"..."

So xP Do you think thumbs qualify as fingers or not?

[Medusa]

For the most part I'm not pedantic enough about labels to demand all the time that I have 4 fingers (or 8 ) and a thumb (or 2). That being said, if someone actually asks me sometimes I'll qualify with both answers.

[Keylia]

You know in Spanish this question just doesn't have the same effect.

[Anoohilator]

Oops I voted wrong - in general it is 4 fingers and one thumb, but if it was how many fungers am I holding up I'd say 5

[_jade_em_]

You know in Spanish this question just doesn't have the same effect.

I didn't know, but I asked it in English

[Paul]

five digits...

[Ginger Harp Seal Pup]

No, a thumb is a thumb, not a finger.

[Divine]

Well I call my index finger my second finger, so I guess my thumb is my first? Or something >_<.

[Igg]

Five Digits.
Four Fingers.
One Thumb.

However I think that game/trick is immensely puerile and stupid; even at my high level of pedanticism.

[Jen]

I can do anything with my thumb that I can do with my fingers, so it counts as a finger.

[DM was on fire!]

Five fingers. Even if my mom makes cracks about only having four fingers...

[Mongrel]

I think of my thumb as a "disabled" finger, because it's smaller and has one joint less than the others, but it can still do most things other fingers do.

Finger is a funny word. The more I look at it the odder it gets.

[Amethyst]

"You know, they call them fingers but I never see them fing....Oh wait, there they go."

[Drake Redcrest]

Four and one thumb. It is not a finger, because it has less joints than a finger.

[ahoteinrun]

Edit:

Ignore me. Apparently I can't count.

See children? This is why you eat breakfast.

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