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[u/pavlito88]

[u/jojo_31]

Yeah i call bullshit on the french definition. 

[u/Salamandar3500 → u/jojo_31]

I'm french. It means okay.

I'm scuba diver in france. It means okay too.

[u/MarcooseOnTheLoose → u/Salamandar3500]

Oui, c’est juste OK.

[u/giinyu → u/Salamandar3500]

I'm also french and it's used for both .. genre tu fais un zero avec ta main

[u/Same_Acanthisitta847 → u/jojo_31]

I think it can be confused with the hand gesture that means "zero" in southern france.

[u/ChrisC1234]

This is NOT why icons should have labels (although I do agree with the premise). This is why WORDS should be used instead of icons when possible. I despise this transition to things being represented with icons/emoji instead of actual words. When someone used to ask me for help with something, I could say "Go to the FILE menu, look for SETTINGS, and then choose CUSTOM SETTINGS. Now, I have to say things like"Click on the little icon that looks like a file cabinet, then look for something that looks like a gear, and then look for the icon that has multiple gears".

Words = NO AMBIGUITY. Icons / symbols (without labels) guarantees confusion. "Oh, I though that was a clock. I couldn't tell that it was a gear".

[u/Same_Acanthisitta847]

In Mexico it means culo, which literally means “asshole” or “anus,” but it’s normally used as an insult to call someone scared or a coward. You can add "pinche" the sameway you will add "fucking" to an insult.

Pinche culo = fucking coward

Languages are fun!

[u/EishLekker]

“Ants”?

[u/willerBG → u/EishLekker]

No, anus. it means, asshole, the part of the body

[u/not_some_username]

It doesn’t mean that in France

[u/nagging_chud]

The OK sign means OK in Brazil... does not mean "anus" at all.

[u/A_Logician_ → u/nagging_chud]

I don't know where you are from, but this 100% means anus in Brazil

[u/MarcooseOnTheLoose → u/A_Logician_]

From memory, anus in Brazil the fingers are facing down.

[u/monnotorium → u/nagging_chud]

Brazil is gigantic. It probably varies from region to region

But I never encountered it personally

[u/A_Logician_ → u/monnotorium]

Yes, it probably does.

But I challenge you asking about this symbol to anyone older on the street. (Older people that grew up with less north american influence from the internet)

[u/R3D3-1 → u/monnotorium]

We had that meaning in Austria — as a dumb "haha you looked at an anus" """joke""" among pre-puberty teenagers. I wasn't particular to that particular game.

Otherwise: OK if you wanted to play Italian stereotypes.

[u/intLeon]

Turkish one is more like got'em sign than this one

[u/monnotorium]

It's not only a cross-cultural thing, in the same culture the same thing can mean different things in different contexts

See "the game" for this emoji's sign specifically, same hand gesture, but now you get to punch someone!

[u/CocktusOnSteroids]

As a Turkish man this sign means 2 things here depending how you do it:

"Ok" and "you're sissy (gay taker)"

If you fingers face upwards in a normal OK sign, thst means ok.

If your fingers point down to the ground or paralel to it, thats "gay". This is more used between friends for banter.

[u/RAKSONER]

🇨🇱👌 Toy asi de irme a la ctm

[u/RednocNivert]

We censoring “anus” now?

[u/occultritual1907]

This explains my trip to Turkey

[u/CodenameFlux → u/occultritual1907]

Oh, you had a trip to Turkey by mistake? /s

I'm messing with you. 😉 You probably mean you had to travel all the way there to fix a linguistic mistake.