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Body language (was: Re: Enterprise)

From:Mangiat <mangiat@...>
Date:Saturday, January 25, 2003, 11:50
> Michael Fors wrote: > > Really?? I thought that languages that have a very vivid body > > language, like Italian (I know some people that attended a small > > course in Italian body language some years ago), also said something > > with those movements. So I do not agree that all human languages are > > monomodal. That is, if I've understood you correctly of course. :)
Italian body language??? How comes I never heard about that? There's an Italian Sign Language used by the deaf community, but I've never come across Italian body language. Indeed, I notice I hardly ever use gestures while speaking. That must be a thing Southerners use to do, I suppose. But that's another world;-) Luca