I do that with my mother-in-law sometimes. Don't laugh!


<mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net> wrote in message
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> Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson <ken_nicolson@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm yet to progress to the um-ing and aw-ing in Japanese phase, so I
> > don't know if it naturally follows, but I know a couple of gaigin who
> > regularly point to the nose, rather than to the chest, to indicate
> > "self". To me it always looks like a forced gesture, but I've never
> > actually asked the people who do it if it's natural or not, just in
> > case they get offended or something. I'm no psychologist or whatever,
> > but I would think that it must be forced. What do you lot think?
>
> Wait till you see them bowing while talking on the phone...
>
> Mike