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Taeyong: what was that

Mark: my shirt fell down the stairs

Taeyong: that sounded louder than a shirt

very few people wear wristwatches, but tapping one’s wrist is still a nearly universal gesture for “what time is it?” or “hurry up”

I used classic corded phones for only a very brief time in my life (before we got those more rectangular-shaped cordless ones for my parents’ landline) and first saw a car without power windows when I was in college, and yet I’ve always used the pinky-and-thumb gesture for “call me” and the circling-fist gesture for “roll down your window.” I’m 24, so my childhood was the late 90s and early 2000s, but I still use gestures that indicate technology either gone or on its way out when I began forming reliable memories

it also makes me wonder how people indicated time or hurrying before wristwatches. did they somehow pantomime a pocket watch? what gestures have we lost as technology marches on? and since video didn’t exist for most of human history, how might we learn what they were? like the contents of the third Georgian spice jar or the location of Punt, nobody would think to write any of it down

similarly “movie” is now signed like this:

but according to my teacher her mother in law signs movie by putting the nondominant hand straight up and down in front of them (like half of the praying hands) and then making a fist with the dominant hand and moving in a circular crank like motion in the way that you’d do with this type of video camera (think mark from rent and his crank camera):