On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 4:14 AM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>wrote:
> > I almost decided to major in cultural anthropology in college, the field > is so fascinating to me. Humans are a diverse breed, and yet we have far > more in common with each other than we have differences. > > I'm certainly glad a smile is a smile and a laugh is a laugh the world over. I was reading somewhere recently (can't find it) that another universal, almost bordering on language, is the 'Uh' response. i.e. I don't understand, I don't comprehend. Supposedly no matter your culture or language, we all do this. On the subject of pigs being clean but we use the term to mean messy, dogs being man's best friend but used as an insult, a while back we had a gentleman at our local church who worked in management for Disney. Every know and then I'd wryly ask him 'how's that Mickey Mouse outfit treating you', he'd smile and tell me "very well". One day he confided with me that Management at Disney were continually concerned and had failed to ever figure out why it was that 'Mickey Mouse outfit' came to refer to something dipolar to everything the company so diligently tried to represent. It's an inexplicable world we live in; which is again why I'm so glad smiling and laughter is universal. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
