• @uebquauntbez
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    Symbol for the hand used like a good old telephone receiver. Thumb is near ones ear, the little finger is near ones mouth. Used here in Germany when land line were used more often to show someone behind a window: I’ll call you (later).

    • @Feathercrown
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      04 hours ago

      The angle of the fingers is all weird. The middle three and the wrist should be pointing up-right, not up.

      • @marcos
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        22 hours ago

        The one on the GP’s link is a bit better. Maybe even recognizable.

        I wonder what system the OP’s one comes from.

        • @Feathercrown
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          11 hour ago

          Yeah, agreed. I was only looking at the OP’s.

  • @y8h8do3a2vg5
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    65 hours ago

    Some cultures have a way of counting to ten on one hand. This represents six in one version of that system.

  • CEbbinghaus
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    2810 hours ago

    The amount or people that dont know about shakas is killing me. No culture

    • @shalafi
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      42 hours ago

      I knew it meant “hang loose”, but I’ve never heard the term.

      • @renrenPDX
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        115 minutes ago

        Known it as hang loose since the 80’s from Hawaii

      • Flax
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        49 hours ago

        Who copied it from the freemasons

      • @[email protected]
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        This is way more accurate than that urban dictionary.

        In Hawaii (depending on where you are) shaka is used all the time. Kinda like waving to someone with a hint of good vibe to it. Also to emphasize “hey that’s cool”. You see it a lot waving thanks to cars, too

        • @TheCannonball
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          42 hours ago

          To add to this, it’s widely used in Brazil who copied it from surf culture.

          China also uses it as part of their one hand counting system. To them it’s the number 6 (pronounced ‘leo’). The use of it in western culture has allowed them to adopt it as a way of saying something is cool. They will say 666 (pronounced “leo leo leo”) while making the hand gesture to say something is cool. This fact was very fun to explain to my ultra conservative family back in the states.

          Source: I taught in China for nine years in an international school with a very large Brazilian community.

        • @Randelung
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          77 hours ago

          So, while stereotypical, the surfer sign meaning isn’t far off!

          Radical 🤙

        • Dr. WeskerOP
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          1013 hours ago

          Is there also a hand signal for when something isn’t good?

    • @BananaTrifleViolin
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      11 hours ago

      It is not the shaka. It’s the “call me hand” emoji.

      • @Chee_Koala
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        149 hours ago

        It’s not the call me hand, it’s the hang loose emoji!

  • @GrymEdm
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    Dude, radical emoji. That’s just a gnarly way of tell someone to hang loose, bro. I’ve usually seen it done left-to-right instead of up-and-down, but the universe is infinite so if you wanna flip it that’s totally copacetic.

    Edit: I started thinking about surfers and it dragged up memories of this legend on Tosh.0

    • Dr. WeskerOP
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      715 hours ago

      It’s good to hang loose? What if stuff falls out?

      • @GrymEdm
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        “Hang loose” is what you tell someone who needs to chill out and let the waves carry them away from their problems man. Align your chakras with the Earth and so on.

        Seriously though, the reason I wrote like that is I’m using the slang of roughly 90s/2000s-ish California surfer culture, which is where the hand signal was used to tell people to relax and be happy. Or say hi and let them know you are relaxed and happy. If you imagine it as a gang sign for surfer hippies you aren’t far off.

      • @RonnieB
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        1415 hours ago

        Stop pooping at parties

        • @thebigslime
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          715 hours ago

          Jennifer is pooping at parties, and she is letting peoples know?!

      • @Nurse_Robot
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        615 hours ago

        I’m starting to think you’re not here in good faith.

        • Dr. WeskerOP
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          -515 hours ago

          I have bots disabled in my lemmy’s settings, why is this showing???

          • @Nurse_Robot
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            514 hours ago

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                23 hours ago

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  • Rhynoplaz
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    1915 hours ago

    Isn’t it a surfer thing? Like hang ten, radical, man.