Monday, September 19, 2011

Hand Gestures From Around the Globe

You too can be manually multilingual.

Meaning: “Shut up”
Used in: France

Meaning: “You are a dickhead”
Used in: United Kingdom

Meaning:“Your wife is unfaithful”
Used in:
The Baltics, Brazil, Colombia, Italy, Portugal, Spain


From Romana Lefevre’s Rude Hand Gestures of the World, with photographs by Daniel Castro

1 comment:

  1. Beatrice10:47 am

    In the french sign you have to move your fingers toward your thumb.

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