On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 5:13 AM, mayqel qunenoS <mihkoun@gmail.com> wrote:
When we talk about fingers at earth, we use this numbering :
thumb or great toe = number one and THEN we say second finger/toe, third finger/toe etc.
I think I finally caught on on why you're confused. When I talk about fingers, I don't use numbers. So I was confused why you were talking about numbers. Then I realized that the English glosses Okrand provided do, indeed number the fingers. I usually ignore them because I use the names of the fingers. In America, and Okrand is American last I checked, we start counting with our index/pointer finger. That is, unless you're my wife or son, and then they start counting with their thumbs... The thumb isn't always considered a finger. So one could say that Humans have 1 thumb and 4 fingers. So if you were to count your fingers, you would start with the pointer finger. So my pinky is my fourth finger, final, and smallest finger. Hope that helps. ~naHQun