this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2023
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's not.

"Hey, look at that girl/car/tree/Chihuahua" isn't a left nod. It's eye contact, then you look at the thing.

"Come here/go there, let's talk" isn't a right nod. It's a weird neck movement where your head is kind of sideways and you're nodding in the direction of the place you want them to go. You usually use "Hey, look at that tree" first before you try to get them to go to the tree to talk.

Can confirm up and down are correct enough, though. Up is for people you know, down is for people you don't.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can confirm your analysis is 100% accurate. Excellent work.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, good point! Nodding with the chin is different from nodding with the... forehead I guess.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Up is for people you know, down is for people you don't.

I don’t think this is exactly true. It’s all about your facial expression. You can give a stranger an up nod if you kinda give a, “eh. What a day, huh?” kind of expression. You can greet people you know with a down nod with a kind of, “g’day sir” expression. Here are many varieties on this.

But if you keep your face blank/hard, then yeah, I can see an up nod to a stranger coming off as hostile.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We men are simple creatures. Makes sense to have simple language.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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