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head wobble
Cheshirecatgeisha Started conversation Jan 3, 2001
The text mentioned the Bulgarian Head Wobble where you cannot tell whether the person means yes or no. Well, EXACTLY the same movement can be watched with Indian people. The wobble is a side to side movement of the head, whereas the head stays upright, ie. does not move forwards or back. This is something really exotic and sometimes unnerving to a western traveller asking for advice as you cannot figure out if it is a confirming, contradicting, maybe, I don´t know or I won´t tell you-movement. Also, you can see Indian people doing this during conversations. To me it often gave the impression of being connected with a contradictory statement or with disagreement but I don´t do Hindi so who am I to tell...
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