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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm still trying to wrap my head around the Czech Republic, where apparently holding up a single index finger means 2.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Not a Czech but now that you mentioned it I want this here too!

I mean have you tried counting from either end using all your fingers i.e. thumb == 1? That dexterous shit is hard so making a single index finger two instantly makes it nice and smooth!

(Instant edit: this obviously only holds if index finger+ middle finger counts as 3, otherwise there really only seems to be an advantage in calling out 2 and my argument collapses)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

How do you count 1 then?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I do have some experience with the Czech Republic and I'm pretty sure this isn't the case.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was only there a month. I can't claim to be any kind of expert. But I do know I wound up eating two sausages.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sausages are often sold as a pair there, just like socks - you won't get just one :) Even the czech word párek (sausage) means also "a pair".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Fascinating. Didn't know that!