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#16 (permalink) Sun Jul 16, 2006 10:03 am I am NEW and fresh. I am Tanya from Sofia, Bulgaria

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rapacious_snake wrote:

Yes, in Bulgaria we use the opposite movements and this is very confusing.I don't use them because I always forget which shaking means "yes" and which "not".

As I heard, there is an old legend about a Bulgarian monk who was demanded to change his religion on pain of death.

As sharp knife was set exactly against his throat, shaking his head meanе killing himself immediately.
And so, he just said 'NO', jerked up his head to prolong his life just a moment - and then... 'nodded'.

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#17 (permalink) Sun Jul 16, 2006 10:32 am I am NEW and fresh. I am Tanya from Sofia, Bulgaria

rapacious_snake wrote:

It is smth like the way the Englishmen drive.

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Keeping a car on the left side of the road can be unbelievably tricky if you're used to driving on the right side of the road. We once had a vacation in Grand Cayman, which is a territory of the UK and so people drive on the left. We rented a car while we were there. No problem, we can handle it, we thought. After all, we were experienced drivers. But it was as if that darn car had a mind of its own! The car repeatedly wandered. There seemed no way to control it. We kept having to remind the car to move away from the right side of the road. But it simply didn't want to pay any attention to us. Cool

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#18 (permalink) Sun Jul 16, 2006 13:55 pm Body signs

rapacious_snake wrote:

Yes, in Bulgaria we use the opposite movements and this is very confusing.I don't use them because I always forget which shaking means "yes" and which "not".

Maybe we could start a thread about body signs! Isn’t it interesting how they can differ from culture to culture?

Talking about head movements – to say no, the Lebanese, for example, sometimes just tilt their chin or head upwards and/or raise their eyebrows. This had me a bit puzzled at the beginning, since I was only familiar with the left to right head shaking for ‘no’ and their movement looked more like a reversed nod!

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#19 (permalink) Sun Jul 16, 2006 14:49 pm Body signs

Conchita wrote:

Maybe we could start a thread about body signs! Isn’t it interesting how they can differ from culture to culture?

Hi Conchita !

I think it will be very interesting and useful for us.(Maybe, a history related with action will be needed ?) Let start it soon. For example with one thing I see on TV : football players rub another player's head. It's unusual in our country, only olders do that with children when they want to praise them.

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