Poll: Do you gesture with your hands when you talk?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I’m not sure that I do it that often, but I’m comparing it to how often my husband and his (Italian) family do it, and it’s all the time for them. He made a funny video just panning around the room at a wedding recently and everyone is gesticulating wildly throughout their inaudible conversations.

The only time this truly annoys me is when my husband is giving me a backrub and he starts getting into the conversation so much he stops rubbing my back so he can gesticulate. It’s a challenge finding the right subject matter that is not too boring for us to talk about but not so exciting he stops rubbing my back.

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I didn’t move to NJ (home of many Italian-Americans) until my 20s, and I was already using my hands for gesturing while talking. My mother has asked me to put down a knife while talking at the dinner table.

Living in Switzerland hasn’t helped. I gesture when speaking in English and German.

My husband says he knows when I’m thinking by my hand gestures and moving lips.

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one reason i took asl in college was so that gestures would match up with speech.

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By percentage, we’re the most Italian-American State. And by a small margin Italian-Americans are the most represented group in NJ. Then German and Irish. Unless you lump all Hispanics together, than they’re #1. We’re also have the second highest percentage of Jewish people after NY.

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I do too. There are worse habits, I guess.

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I’m not Italian. I usually don’t use my hands when talking.

I’m not from NYC. I don’t use my finger when driving.

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