• happybadger [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I like that I've spent time in maybe half the red countries and never learned this. Doigts de pied? Deget de la picior? Palets' na nozi? Dedo del pie? You march to the dictionary building right now and make a word for toe. It is 2023 and Portugal has no excuse to say "dedo do pé" as if it's a serious word.

    edit: And Ukraine, don't think I didn't notice that even your word for toe has Nozi in it.

    • lorty@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      Hey "dedo do pé" is a bit dumb but we have big thumb as a word for the biggest toe so thats cool

    • Pili@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      You can say "doigts de pied" in french, but it does still have an actual word for toes: orteils.

      I don't know about the other red countries, but the French speaking ones should be green here.

    • Soviet Snake@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      It makes no sense to have a word for that if you ask me, they are fingers, what's the difference, you need to remember an extra word for it, it's memory space wasted by something ridiculous imo.

      • happybadger [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        They serve different functions. Toes are for balance and stability, fingers grasp and lift. Transplanting one to the other technically works but not well enough to be practical. If I had an ambulance call that someone had broken their fingers I'd expect them to be able to walk while breaking their toes means a gurney. I'd get not differentiating between ring finger/index finger/middle finger and I don't think there are common English words for the middle toes, but fingers/toes are very different to me.

        • Soviet Snake@lemmygrad.ml
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          1 year ago

          Well, no one would say 'My fingers are broken' meaning their toes in Spanish, you would say 'The foot's fingers are broken" or 'I've hurt my foot' and then specify what's happened. They are different things alright, that's why one is a compound word and the other isn't.

          I found a worse offence that English uses 'the day before yesterday' instead of a word, in Spanish we have 'antier' or 'anteayer'.

      • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        can you hold things with them. That's a big difference

        the phrase "toe the line" is objectively better than "foot finger the line"

    • RNAi [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      Dedos de los pies

      Toe thumb is "dedo gordo del pie"