Los gestos

[tetsuo]

He oído que el gesto "el horno" con la mana signfica el marido fue traicionado por su esposa. ¿Verdad o no?

¿Qué gestos de españa / Latinoamérica sabéis?

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

¿El horno? ¿No quieres decir "cuernos"?

[Villa]

Originally Posted by tetsuo

He oído que el gesto "el horno" con la mana signfica el marido fue traicionado por su esposa. ¿Verdad o no?

¿Qué gestos de españa / Latinoamérica sabéis?

Los cuernos. The horns. Ser infiel a la pareja.
¡No me pongas los cuernos! Don't be unfaithful. Don't cheat on me!
It's colloquial speech naturalmente. People usually laugh when
they hear this unless they are the ones with the cuernos.

It's the same thing in all of Latin America, Spain and Italy.

[tetsuo]

Originally Posted by AngelicaDeAlquezar

¿El horno? ¿No quieres decir "cuernos"?

Tienes razón! Doesn't mean the oven of course. ;-)

@Villa
Do you know any other gestos someone should know, which are used somewhere else but have different meaning in Spain or Latinamerica?

[Villa]

Originally Posted by tetsuo

Tienes razón! Doesn't mean the oven of course. ;-)

@Villa
Do you know any other gestos someone should know, which are used somewhere else but have different meaning in Spain or Latinamerica?

Estoy tratando de pensar en algunas gestos que utilizan en México, Cuba, Ecuador
y otros países de habla hispana. I remember when I had some Mexican national
neighbors and to show the height of a child was not like we English speaking Americans
do it with the hand faced down. It was different. Will find out. Also when I went to Cuba
they had this hand gesture to signal that a "chivo" was listing to the conversation and to
not talk against the Communist government. A "chivo" is a snitch or informer. The gesture
was like making the sign of a beard on your face with one hand as a chivo/goat has a beard.
The people I hung around with were anti-communists and they had to be careful
what they were saying because of the snitches/chivos/informers. Therefore they needed
a non-verbal gesture to signal danger. In Cuba they would put people naked and wet
into a walk-in freezer to get them to talk or so I was told by a guy that had it happen
to him.

En Argentina y Uruguay, por ejemplo, tienen muchos de los mismos gestos que los italianos
dado que la población de estos dos países es medio italiano. Tú sabes about mal occhio/the evil eye,
¿verdad? An Argentine friend would have this ritual she would go through about the mal occhio/evil eye
when she thought the mal occhio/evil eye was put on her or around her. Mal occhio is pronounced (mall OAK-key-oh.

[poli]

Touching an elbow is a gesture that means someone is stingy. It is another way of expressing anda por los codos.

[Villa]

Originally Posted by poli

Touching an elbow is a gesture that means someone is stingy. It is another way of expressing anda por los codos.

That's a good one poli. Te felicito. codo and coda. cheap, stingy
Is it used only in Mexico? You always get a laugh out of that one.

Juan es muy codo, no hay modo de que invite nunca a nadie.
John is so cheap he would never invite anybody for anything.

[poli]

No, definitely not just Mexico. For those who don't know, it means being so cheap that you walk on your elbows to save shoe leather. It's beyond cheap. It's pennywise.

[tetsuo]

Check this out, amigos. Los gestos españoles en un diccionario.
http://www.coloquial.es/es/diccionar...tos-espanoles/
pápel de fumar is smoking paper right?
It's one of the gestos used en la categoria "una mano".

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

"Papel" doesn't bear a written accent. It is pronounced with the stress on the last syllable.

[tetsuo]

Vale. Lo entiendo.

[AMG]

In Colombia, when you put together all your fingertips it is often used when you're saying that a place was really crowded, makes sense?

[Villa]

Originally Posted by AMG

In Colombia, when you put together all your fingertips it is often used when you're saying that a place was really crowded, makes sense?

Hola Ana Maria.

Quisiera saber si ustedes tienen el gesto del dedo
medio en Colombia?
¿Significa lo mismo en Colombia que in the U.S.?
Esto es, o era muy común en los EE.UU.
Me pregunto en qué países es usado el dedo medio
como gesto y si significa igual que in the U.S.?

[AMG]

Originally Posted by Villa

Hola Ana Maria.

Quisiera saber si ustedes tienen el gesto del dedo
medio en Colombia?
¿Significa lo mismo en Colombia que in the U.S.?
Esto es, o era muy común en los EE.UU.
Me pregunto en qué países es usado el dedo medio
como gesto y si significa igual que in the U.S.?

Hola, ya sé de cuál hablas, pues aquí es una grosería pero alguna vez escuché que también significaba: 'te quiero'. Es ilógico.

[Villa]

Originally Posted by AMG

Hola, ya sé de cuál hablas, pues aquí es una grosería pero alguna vez escuché que también significaba: 'te quiero'. Es ilógico.

That was a fast reply. Grazie.

Well Ana Maria, apparently you don't use el gesto del dedo medio, entonces. I put two fotos para que veas el gesto.
In the U.S. esto es un insulto el mas maximo practicamente.
Es un gesto que puede causar una pelea.

Originally Posted by AMG

Hola, ya sé de cuál hablas, pues aquí es una grosería pero alguna vez escuché que también significaba: 'te quiero'. Es ilógico.

Jajajajajajajajaja... Te quiero! Que gracioso!
Asi que si se usa en Colombia? Es ridiculo, really.

[AMG]

Originally Posted by Villa

Jajajajajajajajaja... Te quiero! Que gracioso!
Asi que si se usa en Colombia? Es ridiculo, really.

Yes, here it means like: "púdrete", "vete al diablo", etc.
Lo de 'te quiero' solamente fue una vez que lo escuché.

[Villa]

Originally Posted by AMG

Yes, here it means like: "púdrete", "vete al diablo", etc.
Lo de 'te quiero' solamente fue una vez que lo escuché.

Bueno, significa lo mismo aquí, pero más específicamente es f*ck you
(jód*te)! Hablando desde un punto de vista puramente académico, por supuesto.
¡¿No es todo esto muy divertido?!

[AMG]

Originally Posted by Villa

Bueno, significa lo mismo aquí, pero más específicamente es f*ck you
(jód*te)! Hablando desde un punto de vista puramente académico, por supuesto.
¡¿No es todo esto muy divertido?!

Bueno, perdón, fue un thread equivocado, lo siento.

[tetsuo]

He oído este gesto se llama "la higa" en España, ¿no?
En alemania el gesto es una ofensa. I don't know how to say the rest in Spanish so I need to switch to English. This offence, in Germany, fulfills the statement of face for offences in §185 StGB (StGB = crimincal code). If you do this to a policeman, you probably will be charged. In road traffic you can get charged to, car drivers from Germany can get 5-7 "points in Flensburg" (kind of penalty points, if you reach a specific amount you won't see your license for a month or two, maybe long / forever. depends).

In England a similar gesture is an offence. I don't if middle finger is combined with the index or ring finger to do this. But to make it an offence the back of the hand should be shown to the person you do this gesture to.

In some countries the "reversed victory sign" is an offence, too. Like in England or other English speaking countries. You need the back of your hand to be turned to the other person. This gestures leads to complications when people on vacation order e.g. two beer with this gesture. This gestures comes from North Korea or better say from crew members who were imprisoned in North Korea and were said to be defected. The sign should countermine this "fact".

[Glen]

Originally Posted by Villa

I remember when I had some Mexican national
neighbors and to show the height of a child was not like we English speaking Americans do it with the hand faced down. It was different. Will find out.

What a coincidence. I was just about to post when I searched and came across this thread. Friends of mine from San Luís Potosí told me the gesture is made with the hand rotated palm-side up, three fingers curled tightly inward against the palm and the index finger extended and partially curled so as to point itself upward. The hand is then lifted or lowered to indicate the height. They said it's used only for referring to people (apparently, whether old or young), while the usual palm-down gesture is for indicating the height of inanimate objects. Interesting, eh?