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Is the thumb a finger?
Topic Started: 10th January 2005 - 06:37 PM (360 Views)
Rex Taffel
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I'm having a discussion with my roomate about whether the thumb is a finger. I say its not, but i can't find evidence of this anywhere.

Can somebody clarify this for me (Or in lack of better make some convincing stuff up :) )
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Warlord KrisKit
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euhm if the thumb isn't a finger.. How can you have 10 fingers then? I can't see other fingers then my fingers including my thumb on my hands :rolleyes:
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Bassik Dwarveripper
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My thumb looks like a finger, but he is far more bigger and blistered, but he looks like a finger, and so, I always counted him as one, therefore making me have 10 fingers! Kill that roomate for me, will ya?
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little question ... Did you 2 smoke something? :lol: :P
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I did. And it is legal! I live in holland! AAAGHAHAHAHAHA!
But I wouldn´t recoomend it to people. It slows both your thinking and your reflexes. I try to quit it. I hope so end of the summer.
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Warlord KrisKit
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yeah I know it's legal here B)

ghehe :D
but the question was for the topic starter :P

EDIT: hollandse groenten zijn gezond :lol: :P
translate: Duth vegetables are healthy
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Rex Taffel
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Comon, bring some evidence to the table guys, i still don't believe that it is a finger.

My argumentation:

Fingers are used to fing, you can't fing with thumbs. Only thumb. So there.
Also i heard it on some tv show, could have been The Simpsons, and they can't lie, that would corrupt the youth of the nation :ph43r:
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The Simpsons are terrible. Don't trust anything that they say.

The thumb is a finger, simply a smaller and stouter one. It performs similar functions to fingers. It is a finger.

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a thunb isnt a finger
otherwise it would be called the 'thumb finger', like the 'index finger' or 'ring finger' or 'pinky finger' or 'middle finger'


and oh man, bassik, thats goin into the sig line.... sry jackety
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morskittar, for dissing the Simpsons you have been moved to my hit list. You were doing so well, too...

THe thumb is a finger, but only sort of- the dictionary.com definition of finger is "One of the five digits of the hand, especially one other than the thumb." the definition of thumb is "The short thick digit of the human hand, next to the index finger and opposable to each of the other four digits."

so, its a finger.
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CaptainClark
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Scientifically? You're correct...the thumb is NOT a finger.

Although common lore tells us we have 10 fingers and 10 toes...this is not the case. We have 8 fingers and 2 thumbs...for a total of 10 digits.

The thumb, is opposable, rather then just grasping (it's got a much greater degree of movement due to the joint type.). In addition, each finger has 2 hinge joints, where as each thumb only has 1.

Note also, it is called a "thumb" (not a "thumb finger"), while the rest are refered to as "fingers" (of various descriptions, but they all include "finger"). That should tell most people something ;).
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Grey Seer Arqueek
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I'm the same as STS. If it was a finger they would have called it a finger instead of a thumb. :huh:

What about the pinky finger? What does is it's purpose? You only hold it out when you sip tea but thats about it!

What would you call the thumb if it was a finger? I'd say obiese-finger.
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me and my friend were having this same argument 2 days ago
we came to the concluded that the thumb is a finger and thumb is just a name like rude finger or pinky
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Bassik Dwarveripper
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No-no! the thumb is a finger, but only from a different category.
Example: All fingers are fingers, thumbs is one group, fingers is another.
Just like stormvermin. They are actually ordinary Skaven, but a different apearence puts them in another group.
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