Il 15/11/2010 22:39, Brooklyn1 ha scritto:

>> True, but one ha salso to check which words are used and which aren't.
>> The Oxford English Dictionary lists circa 1 million words, but the
>> Random House Current English Dictionary lists about 350,000.
>> I'd like to have the same figures for italian, though.

> Italian has maybe forty spoken words...
> and more than 350,000 gesticulations. lol
>
> Italian dictionary:
> http://www.alternative-dictionaries....onary/Italian/

LOL
Jokes apart, you americans have a kind of gesticulation too, and it's
really strange for us italians as our gesticulation is strange for you
there.
Take the quotation marks gesture, for example. Nobody would ever do that
in Italy, it sounds geeky and childish here. Who knows?
Anyway, I'm now greeting you the world famous umbrella gesture, and if
you're grown up in a guido populated place you should know what I mean.
This shows it well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XI8sE_56UU
--
Vilco
And the Family Stone
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