Comments on: A test: are you still trully Czech? / Test: jste stale ten pravy Cech?

By: Tanja

Tanja — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:49:21 +0000

Aha, takze maminka te nejdriv ‘flip off’ a pak teprve napocita do ctyr..

By: pavla

pavla — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:46:58 +0000

ja pocitam Cesky a moje deti take pocitali jako ja, az nez sli do skoly.

A mate pravdu, ze u ctvrteho prstu to zacne byt tezke a tak moje maminka zvedne prostrednicek pak malicek a nakonec prstenicek a je to zvlastni, ale opravdu jednodussi

By: Tanja

Tanja — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:12:34 +0000

Ahoj Janney, ja to delam uplne stejne! Mas pravdu, malickem si drzim palec!! No, vidis jak jsme nad tou anatomii vyhraly

By: janney

janney — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:09:11 +0000

czech way.If I show it the american way – I allways se it as V – victory and sign of revolution OF politic part.
Kdyz se dostanu na cislo 4, zjistila jsm,ze si malicek drzim prostredkem dlane( jakoby ho zapichnu do prostred a drzim) – odakziva a ani jsem o to nevedela

By: Tanja

Tanja — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:56:29 +0000

Hi Albert, thank you for the informative answer! I have to make sure to check out all of your links

By: Albert

Albert — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:47:33 +0000

Ahoj,

Asking myself why my two hands do some thing differently I needed to whisk away some cobweb from old memories.
During WWII Winston Churchill popularized the two finger salute to mean “V for Victory”. I only remember using my right hand to make that salute. Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign for more details. In any case only my right hand learned the gesture and uses it for the digit 2. I must remember to avoid using it at an Irish Pubs

I find that my right hand signals 3 by using the Boy Scout salute.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scout_sign_and_salute
I was never a real boy scout. For the digit 3 my left hand displays thumb, index and middle fingers.

Both hands use only the fingers spread apart with the thumb hidden from the viewer to represent the digit 4.
I don’t use the “Live long and prosper” Vulcan V-salute.
http://www.tvacres.com/greetings_spock.htm

Slán,
Albert

By: Vlastimil

Vlastimil — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:25:24 +0000

I remember in one pub on Prague, one guy had no fingers , only a thumb. He shouted at waiter:” bring me three beers”…and waived with his only thumb…
And waiter told him: ” Sorry, we are not allowed to serve drunk people”….

By: Albert

Albert — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:21:12 +0000

Hmmm,

My right hand is American
but
my left hand is Czech.

By: Tanja

Tanja — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:10:00 +0000

To Micahel: hahaha
To Lorenzo: hahaha
To Vlastimil: hahaha
To Jamie: hahaha AND how come the thumb is not my first finger? I still don’t get it. But you are right, when you get to ’4′ it gets a little more difficult

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:22:44 +0000

The Czech way of counting on one’s fingers becomes problematic when you get to 4, because the human hand isn’t built to hold the pinkie down while displaying the other four fingers. But in Europe, if you ask for two of something in the American manner, you’re liable to get three, because Europeans perceive a ghost thumb there even if you don’t display it. And Tanja, the index finger is your first finger. The thumb has only marginal status among fingers. Think of it as a finger with only a green card.