Korean Teenager tries to guess American GESTURES! (With American)
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But... air quotes mean you're being sarcastic?? I dont think anyone's ever used them to emphasize what they're saying... what
Yeah sarcasm or having doubt about what someone is saying
I mean air quotes are the same as normal quotes and tbh I only use quotes to be sarcastic unless I’m siting sum for class
You can use them to emphasise that you don’t agree with what someone said in a sarcastic way. She’s not wrong.
I use it sometimes when I say something that I’m not sure about, like “According to my mother” or “I read somewhere that”
Exactly that what I thought!
Sis hasn’t been in America for so long & doesn’t know air quotes are used when being sarcastic lmao
I know, right? HAHA
i was thinking that lol
I peeped that too. I was like dang. She need to come back
i feel like i’m the only person who doesn’t use it to be sarcastic 😭
Nah that’s like a very obvious meaning she said it’s when you’re quoting something that people normally think and you don’t agree with it which is basically sarcasm.
When I was teaching in Korea, I used air quotes once and totally confused my students. Took me forever to explain what air quotes actually meant (Odd that this girl didn't explain them as sarcasm) because my kids were all screaming, "AHH TEACHER SO CUTE! DO MORE AEGYO!" ...I never used air quotes again lmao
Lmao😂
I’m sorry but that’s just so funny- 😂😂
lmaoooo
The "goodluck" fingers crossed thing can also be used for lies as well
Yes I watched a Korean drama on Viki called Mr.Queen and there, she show the king to finger cross when he’s telling a lie😂
Exactly! I remember learning it as a child because in the movie The Truman Show, Truman sees his wife using that gesture in their wedding photo (done behind her back), which signified that her wedding vows and her role as his wife was all a sham, a lie.
Aayyyoo hitman bang🙏
I've only really ever known it to be an indication of lying when it's behind the back, or maybe occasionally when you're blatantly lying just to be a bit cheeky or whatever.
Otherwise it's always been a "goodluck" symbol toward others (with both hands) or a way to signal hope/a desire for things to turn out well (with one or both hands)
The crossing of the fingers is a really old gesture... It's like a hex. It means something like "let me still have good luck" so when people were lying, they crossed their fingers to not have the bad spirits punish them for lying.
Guide To American Gestures:
The knocking on wood one is so that you don't jinx yourself by saying something. For example, if you are about to take a test and you feel great about it you could say "there is no way I'll fail this one" and then knock on wood so that you don't curse yourself into failing. It supposedly comes from an old thought that if you knock on the wood, demons will confuse the wood for you and go to mess with the wood rather than you.
The first gesture means sarcasm and only is used for quoting on paper. The second one, if done with one hand, means "I'm lying. If done with both hands, it means "wishing for luck"
Yea that’s what I was saying when he said it was lying... like when they cross their fingers behind their back
From my experience you have to say "knock on wood" and then knock on the wood so you don't jinx yourself! Like speaking what you want into existence. :)
I heard it was a prayer to tree spirits for protection. Other cultures have 'touch wood' instead of knock on wood, same principle.
Air quotations are used in many ways so she wasn't wrong.
That’s honestly so interesting because I thought the knocking on wood thing was Russian lmao(cuz we do it in russia too)
The quotation marks mostly used for sarcasm, but that’s one way to explain that..
Crossed fingers behind the back is a way to show the audience behind you that you are lying. It's mostly used in movies. Sometimes the crossed fingers behind the back are a signal to friends that you are lying to the person in front of you and to not uncover the lie.
However, crossing fingers in front is for good luck.
The L brought me back to childhood with the “loser loser, double loser, as if, whatever” we use to do 😂
"Get the picture, duh!" Lol
Oh my god, we all used the same stupid phrases lol, childhood is wikd
The thing that I'm an Indian n never have been to America but do most of the gestures except the hitchhiking n last one 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Do you do the indian head bobble ?
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RUclips search it. I swear it's a thing
@@nicoleraheem1195 yes ik I do it
I only do the loser one ironically 😂🤣
Shooting ones self in the head has multiple uses. I think the one I've seen most is for something that is boring. The meaning is death is better than sitting through this boring class, speech, movie, etc.
I've also seen it used for when someone is telling others that they did something mildly stupid or dumb like "I forgot to add sugar to my cake mixture. Shoot me, it tasted horrible."
Children use the finger cross when lying I never seen an adult doing that. Just in a Korean Drama, Mr.Queen 😂
You should watch the Truman Show then. That's how I first found out about it when I was young.
@@Kingdom_Of_Dreams I’ll check it out 😂
@@raquelfigueroa5539 Please do! It's a classic!!
Now that we're in the +2020 era, I don't even know what's the modern hand gestures here in America.... I'm always indoors and isolated. Ba-dum-bah!
I’m American and I have a photograph of my mother in 1979 doing the finger heart. So its been around for a while. I did it growing up because I saw my mom doing it (that’s where I picked it up). It definitely got re-popularized I think in large part from Korea.
@Estela Lopez No, not to my knowledge. The closest she came to knowing anything of South Korea was her father (my grandfather) served in the US Army during the Korean War, but he *definitely* didn't do finger hearts. My father is from Azores, Portugal and my younger sister's father (it was a party celebrating my younger sister's birth in 1979) is from Mexico.
"Knock on wood" means "I hope I have good luck in the future" It is a weak shadow of what used to be a Druid custom that many people in Western Europe believed in very strongly several centuries ago. The Druids believed that good luck spirits lived in trees just under the bark. If you literally knocked on wood that was part of a living tree, you were asking the good luck spirits in the tree to increase your good fortune and good luck.
I like his personality 😭
yes, crossed fingers behind the back means fibbing. But crossed fingers in full view is a wish for luck. I read that knocking on wood originated from celtic traditions of praying to tree spirits for a blessing. Knock on wood when hoping that something negative won't happen.
Not him exposing the spaniards 🤭
@Estela Lopez but Mexicans came from Spain :(
@@jyp7396 yesn't
I don't really understand the comments that are straight-up saying she was "wrong" about what some of these mean...
As far as I could tell, she wasn't "wrong" about any of them 😕🤨
She might not have gone into as much detail about what some of them mean, but it didn't seem like anything she said was false/incorrect...
I think she did a pretty good job explaining them, especially since the exact meaning/interpretation can differ from place to place 👌🏼
THANK YOU!
In literally every video like this people love to sound smart by correcting or mocking the people explaining. Even when the said nothing wrong
I enjoyed. She's gorgeous and funny and he's handsome and cute!.
how come i feel like i never use these anymore like in highschool i used them but not anymore like ever
Cause COVID ? No school? Idk
theres no one to talk to anymore lol
@@hari2946 I’ve been out of school for like three years so I don’t think so
@@exosluckyone I have about two zoom meetings a day I feel like I just use my words more now no need for old gestures when I have a mouth
Air quotes are used when you are repeating something someone said with heavy sarcasm, often said with a higher or lower pitch.
Crossing your fingers is done when you are hoping to get luck when something is happening. Often times it goes with the saying "cross your fingers, wish for luck."
When you are knocking on wood you are asking for the spirits in the wood to help you and to ward off bad luck. It is often done when you said something (for example "it is probably going to rain and the event will be canceled") and you get a gut feeling that because you said it it will come true and you do not want it to so you knock on wood for the wood spirits to help you avoid the bad luck you are bringing onto yourself.
You cross your fingers behind your back to make it ok to lie. There is more to this but it has been sometime since I have seen this so I can not say more.
The gesture of shooting yourself in your head means "shoot me now and put me out of my misery." Usually means you are in a situation that is over your head and the only quick way out is to shoot yourself. Of course that would not be a true option, but that is the way people who do the gesture feels like at that moment just before they mentally pull up their socks and do what needs to be done.
Thumbs up could be used by hitch hikers but it could also mean good work, good luck, passed the test, or OK.
The blah gesture is a way to mock the person who is talking. It means either the person talking is talking too much and/or it is to show disrespect to the speaker.
The L on the forehead means that the person doing it is labeling the other a loser. Usually makes the person doing the gesture look like the real losers so you may not want to do it. There is a song about it too.
He was right about the crossed fingers meaning lying! It means both. If you wanted to lie, but make yourself feel better that it's not a bad lie, you'd cross your fingers behind your back. It's usually kids that do it, though, and I don't know how common it is these days. You can see Lindsay Lohan do it in "The Parent Trap."
Fingers crossed means to this American "I am wishing intensely for good luck. I am wishing for the situation to turn out the way I want it to."
"Knocking on wood" is an old Pagan superstition. It was believed that good spirits lived in trees and knocking on the trunks would wake up the spirits and you could ask them for protection or blessings.
Then it sort of warped to the spirits being bad...You're supposed to knock on the wood while you speak so that the spirits don't hear of your good fortune and jinx you.
yay Miami it’s so rare to see it be even mentioned in anything Korean so it’s really nice to see
he is so cute they both are. Love these videos so much fun.
That finger gun was used so much by me while working at a live music club... thought I liked all kinds of music... I found out that I don’t.
"Knock on wood" is one of the many "don't tempt fate" superstitions in the West. You don't want fate to be tempted to bring about the opposite of what you wish, so you rasp your knuckles against a wooden surface (apparently wood is the weakness of fate LOL) after you say something about a positive thing that you are hopeful about. Another one is "break a leg", in which you verbally wish an ill-fate on someone so that if fate decides to be a d**k and do the exact opposite, then it will unwittingly bring success upon the person. There is a similar thing done in ancient Mongolia (hear me out) where a mother and father might name their child something unlucky and negative, like "Dog", so that fate will not be tempted to destroy the child's future successes. I know that it's random that I brought up ancient Mongolia, but I came across it in research a while back and I always connected it to the "break a leg" thing LOL.
💛💛💛💛💛sending love from Miami
He was right about using both crossed fingers and knocking on wood at the same time, except you do both with the same hand. Cross your fingers and knock on the table with the knuckles of those same fingers is how many people do it. :)
Crossing fingers while promising means they are not really promising. So it can be like lying. But it can also be used to wish for continued fortune (good weather/your team on a winning streak) or just hopes in general like wishing for another season of your favorite show etc.
As a Spanish person, I'm so sorry that you had to deal with racist actions, Kiwoong. Honestly, my country sucks. There's a huge part of our population that's still extremely racist and don't even notice it, but I'd like to think that we're working on it and most young people aren't that disrespectful and ignorant. There are also really great Spaniards who will kindly interact with any kind of person, no matter where they're from or what's their ethnicity. Once again, I apologize for the behavior you had to endure...
knock on wood is used to avoid "jinx"ing something. people think that if you acknowledge smth is going well, it will make your luck go sour, so you need to knock on wood to prevent that.
I love watching these!! (나는 이것들을 보는 것을 좋아한다 !!)
Sending love from the UK! (영국에서 사랑을 전합니다!)
This should be call Western gestures, I am Australian and we have many of these too.
I have seen at least a few people use the hitch-hiking gesture. When you go to impoverished small towns, where some people cannot afford cars, there are no buses or services like Uber/Lift, and they need to get somewhere farther away that is when people still use it.
Good luck fingers are when your crossed fingers are visible and if your crossed fingers are behind your back where it’s not visible to the person in front of you it means your lying. Air quotes are sarcasm or to emphasize sarcasm. The knocking on wood is different in different settings 1)if you make a wish and knock on wood it’s for blessing 2) if someone knocks on the table in front of you they are trying to get your attention (typically used on students).
Her explanation for air quotes is correct as well. They also are used to show you disagree with someone or some things (like a magazine article) words.
Hitchhiking became a huge thing in the 60s. It was like catching the bus back then- no one really thought it was strange until..ya know murderers took advantage of this opportunity like Edmund Kemper, Donald Henry Gaskins, etc..definitely recommend listening to their stories from Bailey Sarian 🥴
..It still exist today but it’s not as common or seen as acceptable because of how dangerous it is.
And I’m sorry he had racist encounter in Spain omg that made me sad lol I’m glad he feels comfortable joking about it..
Viewers on this channel always looking for something, even if it's so small, they always gotta comment about it, people in the comments talking about the same thing cz that's the only thing they can talk about💀
Unless you're just one of those people who have to make a negative comment about commenters, because that's all you have to say. Why not comment in a positive way? Example: This was really interesting and they did a great job! Or, it appears that commenters have different views of what the gestures mean. Or, I guess the middle finger is an international gesture. lol
@@jamiepaul6305 yes, it is all i can talk about because that's the only thing I see in the comments, negativity. I'm expressing how much viewers on this channel complain about things that were said or done in their videos.(I see some positive comments on some of their videos sometimes but it's mostly people pointing out things and correcting them, but in a rude way or it's just pure complaining.)
@@mireya5085 My point was that instead of commenting on the commenters, maybe you should say something nice about the video.
@@jamiepaul6305 I understand what you're trying to say(and I'm grateful that you're not being disrespectful towards my perspective of my comment and not misunderstanding what I'm saying, acknowledging my comment and also sharing your thoughts.) I was just pointing out that the comments are always something negative about the video, which irritates me, because it's just constant complaining about little details in the videos, so I was just pointing it out. My comment was mainly focused on the other comments rather than the video, which I intended for it to. I hope we're both understanding each other's perspective of my comment, which it seems like it:)
@@mireya5085 I believe I understand your purpose and perspective. As always, everybody is entitled to their own opinion. With that being said, I hope your kindness continues to grow. :)
Keep up the great work,
People cross their fingers in order to trap good luck, and when we are expressing a desire for a future event you openly cross your fingers and even announce it.
When lying the logic is the same, but they conceal the gesture, as they are essentially wishing the lie is not exposed.
To knock on wood is to dispel evil which will be attracted to and try to disrupt any good thing, why you mention the good thing you it lets the evil know what to target so the knock distracts the evil. Essentially you use this gesture as a reaction when you have accidently said that your expecting good things to continue, this is called a 'jinx' and is thought to actually hasten the end of the good thing in question.
1. sarcasm
2. in front of u its wishing, behind ur back its lying
3. knock on wood is avoiding a jinx.
4. i wanna die, pls get me outta here, kill me pls, etc. most used when ur bored
5. its "good job" with people, on the road its hitchhiking
6. mocking someone for talking too much
7. loser. we really don't use this anymore unless its ironically
Damn, he said he faced racism in another country... that's so sad. It just reminds me how I can't believe how bad some people have gotten with it here in America. I literally can't comprehend hatred for someone you know nothing about only what they represent in your mind, and to feel so strongly about it enough to lash out.
If you ever feel the need to lash out at someone always take a step back and see why you are actually mad. I think a lot of the current cases in the USA of racist attacks are rooted in the frustration of our rights being limited for a whole year and a half. It does not justify it in the least.
they're funny !!
Love from Cali
I clicked on the vid out of sheer curiosity (and boredom) to see if I'd know all the gestures. And then realized I know them all better than the actual American in the video 😂
I think most of them were similar to indian gestures 🇮🇳
WOW I knew all of these
We have a lot of gestures that I thought every country uses
It says American but I'm European and I also use some of them
They probably meant Western
@@maggiewaldoch7490 What I don't understand is why they never put westerns instead of putting americans, anyway thank you for explain it
@@m.i_myself_and_i_ I don’t really know either. I’m American myself and it irks me too.
I've used Yada, Yada, Yada in place of Bla Bla Bla. LOL. Usually when I'm rattling off a list...
I last saw a hitchhiker two weeks ago so Ik the gesture well haha
I thought the Looser hand gesture was going to be the "What Ever Major Looser" hand gesture from the thumbnail... I must need new glasses :'((
Yeah sis about that... some of the things you said are not what the hand gestures mean.
Knock on wood is not for good luck. It is for cancelling a jinx. When you say something good is happening, it might "jinx" it, so that good thing won't happen anymore. You must knock on wood to acknowledge that the good thing is not in your control and is not guaranteed, to dispel the jinx.
Crossing your fingers behind your back so the person you are telling the lie to doesn't see is a thing too. He technically was right lol
Very interesting video👍👍👍👍
the two rabbit ears like sign usually means negative/not not good like you're being sarcastic but I do agree with the emphasizing
The fingers crossed is NOT specifically used for Lies. It is still used for luck even when lying. You cross your fingers hoping to not get caught- Luck. It does not mean- “I am lying”. It means- I’m lying but hope I don’t get caught. (When used when lying)
i thought the air quotes were for sarcasm- I use them for sarcasm so lmfaoo
I remember doing the whatever loser gestures in elementary school lmaoo
Knock on wood one is more so done so that something you said isn't jinxed.
Nah girl the qoute hands are for being sarcastic 😭
Who else thought they should have added the whatever major loser hands signs 😭🤣
the airquotes are used for emphasis. When did it start meaning sarcasm? the crossed fingers meant closeness. for example, we are this close. If you have them behind your back, it means lying or breaking your promise. Also hitchhiking is against the law in the U.S.
It's not illegal in all states
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In France the air quotes are like the blah blah blah it's sarcastic and depends on the context but most of the time it's a little bit mean for example the blah blah blah can mean talk as much as you want I don't care 😌 but for the others the sense is almost the same 😂
She got most of them wrong, like the knock on wood, means more like "God forbids" not what she said
In Europe, if you promise somthing but cross your finger behind your back, you are not going to keep youe vow!
So you are laying, so far, you were right.
The knock on wood is from ancient times when people actually did knock on trees to have the spirits bless them. I think it's pagan in origin.
She was slightly incorrect about the air quotes. We use that when we’re quoting something/someone or emphasizing SARCASTICALLY. Like, when I say that Donald Trump is a “stable genius”. 😒 My heart sank when he mentioned be a target of racism in Spain. 😔 Come on, WORLD! Let’s cut that crap OUT!
Bla bla bla reminds me of eat jin vli* 😂😂😂 after rose ...concert 😍
Great video!!!🦋💞🇩🇴🇺🇸💃🏻
I think the air quotes mean that you’re saying something you don’t necessarily agree with. So if you’re repeating what someone else said and it wasn’t true you use the air quotes. Or if you’re being sarcastic you don’t mean what you’re saying so you could use the air quotes.
Is she all the way american with American parents or did her parents and/or grandandparents come from a different country?
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Because the crossed fingers ALSO means a lie, when you promise something.
It's done with elementary kids more than adults but he's right.
They are both correct on this one.
Crossing fingers also means lying lol
I'm surprised they didn't throw up the deuces/peace sign
Honestly same
I don’t think she explained some correctly. The quote gesture and the knock on the wood are the examples.
The gun to the head means “put me out of my misery”
he brought up the racism so casually what the heck? 😃
she was wrong about several of these. air quotes mean sarcasm, the gun to head is like "I'm annoyed, this is annoying"
Well what she said was also correct
@@mireya5085 Not really. Specially with the fingers crossed. 1 finger crossed is lying.
2 fingers could mean wishing for luck.
@@FreshAsianSwagg she not really American to begin with she’s just lived their fir s couple of years
i thought the gun to the head was like i wanna die or i wanna kms cuz that’s how i use it or something like “shoot me now”
@@squishyhanjisung7330 I mean you are not wrong, but also this is used when you are annoyed. Like usually if you are on the phone and the other person will not stop talking you will do gun to the head to say "this person won't stop talking, it's so annoying, kmn" I guess I should have elaborated
Lmao since WHEN do air quote mean you're QUOTING someone??????? Since childhood I have known it to mean sarcasm or when you don't really believe something like
She said she's a "superhero"
Cúando aprenderán que americanos somos todos por aquí?! ellos son estadounidenses ...
But with the fingers crossed, we missed an important part of our culture. Didn't y'all ever play the cheese touch game? From Diary of a Wimpy Kid? Please tell me this isn't just an Idaho thing.
Keeping your middle finger up while putting all the rest of them down means________. That's a common American gesture.
That's used in Korea too, that's why they didn't add that.
@Estela Lopez yah, giving the pinky finger in China is a gesture of distaste of a person or what they have said. The middle finger in the west is an expression telling someone where to go. “FU Asshole” or, “Up your ---.”
Uh is she actually from America? A lot of what she said isn't true.......like air quotes are obv for sarcasm! Idk what she was saying there. This type of video would be better with someone who spent more time in the US or actual research from those showing the pictures.
I believe she hasn’t been there for a long while so she might’ve forgotten. Idk It must’ve been hard for her to just come up with an easy explanation as most of us just use these with ease- no one’s going to be able to give an educated answer as to what it exactly means off the top of their head.
Eh i think she did okay lmao
No, she's right about air quotes. Just like quotes used in writing, air quotes indicate that the words spoken are not your own. They don't have to be used only for sarcasm.
@@AshleyKaulitz007 I've lived in eight different states and have never irl seen anyone use them for that 😂 I'd be like are you being sarcastic or......
@@NelleBear I won't deny the vast majority of people use them for sarcasm and see them that way. "Intellectual discussions" are likely where you'd observe them non-sarcastically and only if the speakers bother to do the hand signals. An example would be if someone was explaining about Koreans using "Konglish" terms and how they would say "hand phone" to mean cell phone. The person explaining is not being sarcastic in this scenario, just indicating the words are ones that other people made/use.
Air quotes can also be followed by the hedge phrases "for lack of a better term" or "if you will," acknowledging that the speaker doesn't at that moment know a more accurate way to say what they want or that an accurate way to express it doesn't exist in English. The more general meaning behind this is “please ignore the exact word I'm using here and focus more on the point I'm making."
@@AshleyKaulitz007 Thank you for that very intellectual, thought-out explanation. I never thought to see such a long, detailed response about the usage of air quote in verbal English discussions on YT. But I appreciate you taking the time to reply to my very important comment and share your obviously more knowledgeable insight about this topic.
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Am I the only American who has never seen the knocking on wood one? I've never seen anyone around me do it nor have I ever done it.
I had only heard the phrase “knock on wood” but had no idea that it came with a gesture
All I know ab that is that ad like oakwood or sth 💀
It's a very old gesture. My grandmother used to do it.
Well, knocking on wood is one of those superstition ls that are very popular in my country and other Latin American countries. It's mostly to not jinx yourself. I do it all the time unconsciously.
The girl is actually getting lots of them wrong, lol.
I dont know why but Ive seen many western people laugh like koreans do, like, they laugh at everything all the time why is that?
Why not? Enjoy your life to its fullest!
@@eavening4149 I'm a pretty joyful person but only someone crazy laughs all the time 🤔
@@danielaa.olvera7321, then obviously this feeling you have about frequent laughing is a cultural difference.
Laughing shares the joy and delight a person feels with others. (Sometimes laughing can also be a nervous reflex.) The manner of laughing not the frequency of laughing tells me if someone is laughing at jokes I can't hear.
what tf part of america i’m in because i don’t see NOBODY doing most of these
i take that back, i finished the vid i don’t see nobody doing any of these
These comments hurt lmaoo i do all of these (except hitchhiking)💀💀 they’re common western gestures
@Estela Lopez oook, and? movies are not real life, your parents never told you not to believe everything you see on tv?
@@misoasoda340 you must watch to much tik tok than ig, idk😂😂
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I never watch Tiktok, but the air quotations and the "fingers crossed" (hope for a good outcome) gesture are ones that I do commonly, as do others around me.
I also know plenty of people who do the "shoot me now" gesture, so maybe they're just not as commom wherever you're from 🤷🤣
ehhhhh
How is it that these korean channels always seem to get americans who don't know what they're talking about lol
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No offense, but she didn't really explain the hand gestures well. Many of them have multiple meanings, and she was quite short and somewhat incorrect with the explanations. I dont know if they just didn't have the time, but I felt like they missed a bunch of stuff. The air quotes used to be used for quoting, but it's mostly used for being sarcastic nowadays.
She is still correct for air quotes as well. I think she made them short as to not confuse him or just shortenes them as those are closing to more personal use ones.
Y’all need to redo this cause we don’t even do these 👩🏿🦱🤛🏿
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But we do though...
Even though we don’t often use them, it still makes sense to make this video because the gestures are known by all Americans as well as used in America but not Korea
@@AshleyKaulitz007 naw we don’t
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She doesn’t fully understand these gestures
i’m only three in but all of her explanations for these are wrong?
This girl seems like she is from Europe or something. they get American hand gestures wrong a lot too. Right?