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Brazilian Body
Language
In
terms of body language, nobody beats the Italians in sheer
number of gestures. I have a book with at least 50 different
ones, and that doesn't include the obscene category. But Brazilians
are not very far behind (try watching Brazilian TV news...they
can't talk in Brazil without using their hands!). Our gallery
of permitted body language and gestures to avoid has grown
over the past year, so we now have a number of different pages.
By
the way, a Canadian who was here on business. He was a bit
leery of taking taxis because he had seen a taxi driver doing
a gesture which he couldn't understand and thought might mean
something bad...well, it turned out that the driver had been
making the gesture for "full." Check out the pages listed
below and be a savvy traveler...
1- Obscene
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Screw You or I Screwed
Up ( or top-top)
Make
a fist with one hand and slap the top of it with the
other once or twice. It means screw you and "I got screwed"
or "I screwed up" (like in a test or something, often
accompanied by the expression "entrei pelo cano"). It's
very commonplace among friends in informal contexts,
but you'd better avoid this one too.
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