• Spuddaccino@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      It’s not.

      “Hey, look at that girl/car/tree/Chihuahua” isn’t a left nod. It’s eye contact, then you look at the thing.

      “Come here/go there, let’s talk” isn’t a right nod. It’s a weird neck movement where your head is kind of sideways and you’re nodding in the direction of the place you want them to go. You usually use “Hey, look at that tree” first before you try to get them to go to the tree to talk.

      Can confirm up and down are correct enough, though. Up is for people you know, down is for people you don’t.

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        Up is for people you know, down is for people you don’t.

        I don’t think this is exactly true. It’s all about your facial expression. You can give a stranger an up nod if you kinda give a, “eh. What a day, huh?” kind of expression. You can greet people you know with a down nod with a kind of, “g’day sir” expression. Here are many varieties on this.

        But if you keep your face blank/hard, then yeah, I can see an up nod to a stranger coming off as hostile.