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| New-Gen
01-20-2006 04:38:56
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How many people here are of French ancestry? And if you are, do you talk with your hands? (Road rage hand/finger signals don't count).....
The people around here are almost all French, but at least third generation Americans, but everybody, myself included, find it almost impossible to converse without a LOT of hand motion. I’ve even tried making a conscious effort not use “hand punctuation”, but I just can’t do it! Is it just a regional thing or what?
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| donna in w.v
01-21-2006 04:12:12
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| Smitty of Cal
01-20-2006 18:19:11
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| Steph Samford
01-20-2006 16:29:52
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I am and yes I talk with my hands often. And am laughed at alot. I was told to sit down on my hands so I would quit talking.
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| Tanklord
01-20-2006 13:23:51
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Cops had me in handcuffs and I couldn't answer a single one of their questions. Thats what they get for arresting a %100 Cajun for "acquiring" the makings for a meal using a headlamp in the middle of the night (Spotlighting for rabbits on a gravel road)
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| ~Lenore
01-20-2006 11:13:16
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French German mix here.
I don't think I use my hands when I talk.
I don't remember any of my family doing that.
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| Ron/PA
01-20-2006 10:59:12
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Nah, I've noticed that them french tend to stutter when the police have the handcuffs on them... Just can't talk right.
Ron
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| toolman
01-20-2006 09:56:32
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irish, english scotch, and welsh, think i only talked with my hands when i use to drink,leaving the bat at closing time mostly I THINK.Hic hic.
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| Zenia
01-20-2006 09:26:42
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| Portuguese/ Irish... I always use my hands. I come from a very soft-spoken, quiet background, very stoic Irish mother & Grandmother. It's funny sometimes when I am talking I notice the other persons eyes follow my hands, lol.
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| steve19438
01-20-2006 08:37:05
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i got news for ya, everybody uses their hands when talking. i don't think it has anything to do national origin, but more a personality type a thing.
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| NGF
01-20-2006 08:16:32
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Could be Iroquois county (you know, like "davenport") :). I am German and English with a touch of Irish thrown in for good measure. I talk with gestures a lot. I also know a bit of sign language :). I agree that working in a loud environment necessitates a lot of gesturing. Early on my CPR Instructor Trainer told me never to open my mouth without my hands on the mannikan (sp?) because I was great at demonstration but scattered when it came to the lecture part. My hands gave me focus. Of course, then they came out with a video lecture - he gave me my own personal copy. :)
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| bill b va
01-20-2006 08:08:43
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| Case Lady
01-20-2006 06:35:10
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I am with Joe, got just enough Cajooon in me that if my hands were tied, I couldn't say a word!!! Throw that in amongst some German, Dutch and Choctaw and just plain Ol' Redneckish, and not only can I not say a word without my hands, I can pitch a fit with 'em too and throw things!!!
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| CathySD
01-20-2006 05:35:22
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| I come from a community that had a strong French background, and never noticed that. On my dad's side, his great grandfather was French, from Canada (Quebec area). I have info on his line back to the 1600's, but don't know if they were in North America all that time or not (have family genology book). Family name started out as Casse ou Lacasse, and in the mid 1700's dropped the first part and it became LaCasse. (We pronounce it LaCoss) My Dad's Grandfather ran away from a arranged marriage (this is documented, not speculation)just hours before the wedding. Moved to southern USA, ended up fighting for the South in the Civil War for a while, then ended up North and fought for the north for a while too. Then he moved to MN, married a woman who also had a strong French Canadian background and raised a large family. On my mom's side, her Dad's parents imigrated from France, and her mother's parents imigrated from Poland. I have no Polish family reciepies or anything, as that side of the family decided they'd left Poland behind, and didn't want to bring any of it with them into the new country. Cathy
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| Salmoneye
01-20-2006 04:49:09
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| Joe...
01-20-2006 04:45:52
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It's genetic, NG...I have just enuf Cajun in me to require my arms ta flap when I talk. Sometimes, when I'm excited, I've been known to lift myself a few inches off tha ground...
--Joe...
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| would I admit it?
01-20-2006 04:42:28
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| Clod
01-20-2006 06:05:14
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People who spend a lot of time around loud machinery talk with visual aids too.
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