Japanese gesture
The Gesture Of Breaking With Someone
A common gesture in Japan is "breaking with someone" It is described that one takes both of the index finguers and touch two tips and make a straight line with your index finguers. Then the other cuts off the straight line between the two indexs fingures with a hand which has to be made like knife. The hand is moved from up to down. This gesture means "breaking with you."
However, we also have a method to make up! One makes the same form, makes a straigh line, and the other cuts it off, but this time the hand has to be moved from down to up. It means "make up with you."
This gesture is used by small children like kidding. For example, when I was playing outside, my friend was mean to me so I made the form of the gesture and ask to break with her. She cut off my fingures. At the time we didn't talk but few minutes later we couldn't put up with the silent and we bursted out laughing. This gesture is not serious breaking, but being fun. I think we break with someone seriously, we don't do the gesture.
posted by Nana @ 1:13 PM
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We use the "break" gesture for a similar reason, but it might be hard to explain. If two friends say the same thing at the same time, then the faster one says, Jinx!" and touches their index fingers. The other person isn;t allowed to speak until they break the fingers. People over the age of 15 don't usually do this.
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