Asklemmy

55020 readers

226 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 7 years ago

MODERATORS

When you signal a number to another person using your hands, do you face your palm or tge back of your hand to the ither person? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 days ago by neo2478@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

15 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I noticed the difference between my friend and I when I replied to a friend with the number 2, while showing the back of my hand. Being British, he promptly did the same gesture back at me.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] anime_ted@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

If I'm dealing with someone who I can reasonably assume is not American it's palm toward me and thumb out (but not pointing straight up) for one, thumb and index finger for two, and so on. Many American hand gestures are offensive to other cultures and it's not hard to learn to do it this way.

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I might be mistaken, but I think a thumb only gesture is offensive in some cultures. Not sure how important the hand orientation is.

[–] anime_ted@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

You are absolutely right if it's the "thumbs up" gesture. I learned the European way, with the fingers curled but not closed and the thumb extended to the outside (right side for a right-hand gesture and left for left-hand) at about a 45-degree angle. This doesn't really look like the offensive gesture from my perspective but I realize others may disagree. Thankfully, as far as I know, I have never offended anyone doing this.

[–] MurrayL@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I worked on a game where we added the ability for the player to react to messages from other characters, but was told we had to remove 👍 as a reaction because it’s offensive in some places.