Blogs February 2005
[Alkuun/Homepage] [ the index ] [ Comment by email ] I am slightly dyslexic. Please, try to tolerate some misspellings. The order of notes is from newer to older. Within a note, the order is the opposite. My blogger code : B5 d- t++ k+ s+ u- f i o+ x-- e+ l c-- ( decode it !) February Monday, 2005-02-28 Animated gestures The local people are quite animated here. Especially younger women tend to twist their faces, make all kinds of facial expressions, and other gestures with their heads, when they talk. I assume that those facial expressions are somehow meant to emphasize the meaning of their words, but I have great difficulties in interpreting them. Sometimes, the extra animated facial expressions leave me so puzzled, that I cannot get any idea of the actual verbal expressions, and I just nod benovelently. But that's just because of my cultural limitations. There is, however, a more general question to consider. I have noticed, that the...