- From: Jonathan Lewis <jonathan@iss.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 08:29:39 +0900 (JST)
- To: www-international@w3.org
At 3:29 PM +0200 98.8.31, Pascale Dardailler wrote: >I think that in Japan this gesture means 5.And I'm pretty sure that you >could find countries where it's an insult. A pedantic point. When counting on the hands in Japan, 1 is the thumb only extended (i.e. the "thumbs up" position, although the thumb does not have to be vertical) and 5 is all fingers extended. Anyway, the thumbs up and thumbs down signs are commonly understood here and have the same meaning as in the West. Best wishes, Jonathan Lewis Institute of Social Science University of Tokyo
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