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Le salut scout à deux doigts

Le salut scout polonais ressemble, paume inversée, à l'insulte britannique du V.

Under developmentInsult

Category : Hand gesturesSubcategory : salutations-militaires-ritualiseesConfidence level : 3/5 (documented hypothesis)Identifier : e0015

Geography of misunderstanding

Offensive

  • uk
  • ireland

Neutral

  • germany
  • austria
  • switzerland-de
  • poland
  • czech-republic
  • slovakia
  • hungary
  • romania
  • france
  • belgium
  • netherlands
  • luxembourg

Not documented

  • peuples-autochtones
  • afrique-ouest

Full description

⚠️ This sheet is currently under development. Detailed content will be published in a later phase of the editorial project.

Le salut scout polonais ressemble, paume inversée, à l'insulte britannique du V.

Sources

  1. Morris, D., Collett, P., Marsh, P., & O'Shaughnessy, M. (1979). Gestures: Their Origins and Distribution. Stein & Day / Jonathan Cape.
  2. Axtell, R. E. (1998). Gestures: The Do's and Taboos of Body Language Around the World (revised edition). John Wiley & Sons.
  3. Matsumoto, D. & Hwang, H.C. (2013). Cultural similarities and differences in emblematic gestures. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 37(1), 1-27. — ↗