Timeline for A word, gesture or expression for a confident "shrug"
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| Jul 4, 2021 at 2:22 | comment | added | Tinfoil Hat | Whee! I've been sent to the ELU principal's office: Are non-verbal answers (and questions soliciting them) acceptable? | |
| Jul 3, 2021 at 17:01 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | But such descriptive answers are not on-topic on ELU. I might as well call it a 'full disclosure body signal'. How are these valid as ELU answers? | |
| Jul 3, 2021 at 15:12 | comment | added | Tinfoil Hat | @EdwinAshworth: I'm not inventing a term. I am using words to describe the gesture that the OP was looking for. | |
| Jul 3, 2021 at 15:05 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | 'Such a gesture exists. It doesn't have a name. That's why I called it a "nothing-to-hide" gesture.' But inventing a term is not the standard practice on ELU. | |
| Jul 3, 2021 at 14:50 | comment | added | Tinfoil Hat | @EdwinAshworth: The OP asked for a particular word, gesture, or expression. Such a gesture exists. It doesn't have a name. That's why I called it a "nothing-to-hide" gesture. In quotes. That's the standard treatment in English. | |
| Jul 3, 2021 at 13:59 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Xzotica's portfolio is not an accepted authority on the English language. // The tag 'gesture' has to date not been taken to mean that a picture/video showing body language is an acceptable answer on ELU, and all assume that a word / expression related to the gesture is needed. The term 'a “nothing-to-hide” gesture' is non-standard. | |
| Jul 3, 2021 at 2:47 | history | edited | Tinfoil Hat | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 2, 2021 at 19:20 | comment | added | Tinfoil Hat | @EdwinAshworth : I’m not sure what you would consider sufficient support. The caption for the picture came with the image I posted. If the above edit doesn't suffice, I’m sure I could find an academic paper on gestures. Also, I will note that though this gesture might be idiomatic in some cultures, it might not be in all. Certainly it is in mine. | |
| Jul 2, 2021 at 19:17 | history | edited | Tinfoil Hat | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 2, 2021 at 13:31 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | I can't find sufficient support on the internet to justify ' "nothing-to-hide" gesture' as idiomatic. | |
| Jul 2, 2021 at 11:18 | comment | added | FrontEnd | Just curious how one would write this kind of gesture up? I don't think most people would understand if in my examples "shrugged" was replaced with "made a nothing-to-hide gesture" would they? Similarly, saying "raised his hands/palms" to me denotes more of the classic hands up surrender when a gun is pointed at you. | |
| Jul 2, 2021 at 4:08 | history | answered | Tinfoil Hat | CC BY-SA 4.0 |