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RttS: Talita Counts to 16 on One Hand (Patreon)

Published:
2021-10-29 08:09:31
Imported:
2022-06

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Welp. I got busy offline and fell off the wagon for my goal to post once a day in October, I've missed two days now. Might try to make it up by posting 3 things today.

After some indecision I decided Talita counts on her hands using a regular binary finger counting method, with one twist (using the second variant of the fist as the final number.)

I had been considering making her method an ugly hybrid of 'regular' finger counting and binary, to show she started with the former and then added onto the original habit later in life, but it was turning out a little too ugly for my tastes. Talita seems like the kind of meticulous nerd who would deliberately change her finger counting habits into binary, anyways.

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Simone Spinozzi

Oh! Neat! ❤️ Normally i can count up to 32 on one hand by counting phalanxes in the old mediterranean style. You start with the single phalanxes and you end up counting to 14 then you start grouping 2 adjacent fingers then 3 fingers and 30 to 32 is all 4 fingers. Aside from the one time where you indicate the thumb phalanxes with the index, the thumb is the finger that counts and you do not group index and pinky, they always stay adjacent. If Talita did that she'd get up to 10 with the single digits counting then 12 with the first grouping but the 13 might or might not be easy to indicate (i was already counting the "nail" as an extra phalanx which it is not but it works for counting), so let's stop to 12, then 15 with the 2 middle fingers, and 17 with the other finger+thumb. By the same measure she would get up to 21 with 3 finger grouping at which point one stops. I have never seen you draw Talita's thumbs in a position different from what i see now and your comment on ASL made me assume they are fixed in position and are not truly opposable as human thumbs, they can just wiggle back/forth. So i am going to assume she cannot scrunge her hand and add 4 extra by counting with 1 thumb 2 opposite digits, so let us stop here. We do not do it because it starts looking like an offensive gesture more than anything else. For humans grouping distant fingers it would allow counting up to a lot more (another 9 for pinky+index, pinky+middle and index+anular and anothet 8 for thumb+4 fingers, then another 6 for disconnected 3 finger groupings which become another 8 for thumb+2 other fingers and another 8 for 4 finger groupings using the thumb, bringing the theoretical total to 81), but a lot of those finger scrounging plus signaling are nearly identical to ultra-rude gestures. As to the origin of those ultra-rude gestures being made to mock people who did not allow such ways to count or signal a number or vice versa id those ways to count numbers being disallowed because they look like rude gestures... that's a chicken/egg situation. I never could tell because .... people do not actually keep an history of rude stuff, they always censor it and shove it under a rug whenever possible. Even thought it pretty much defines why a lot of "really stupid" decisions were made. Social pressure is an extreme definer of what is and is not allowed. It's a pity, really, because it means we lost a good chunk of our history and understanding to "this is not appropriate, do not write it down" or "i do not like this, delete it.". 😓

Anonymous

“Meticulous space nerd finger counts in binary” is my new favourite genre of finger counting.

Anonymous
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(Psst…If you check some of the other “Talita does ASL” comics, there are a couple places where she makes “C” and “O” shapes using her thumbs opposably to her other fingers.)

Anonymous

As somebody who deliberately changed how I finger-counted after seeing that one bar scene in Inglorious Basterds at a party, I appreciate the obscure representation. 😁

Jaxon

Still chuffed you liked my suggestion this much.

Anonymous

neeeeeerd (fondly)