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** It goes the other way around too - part because of autistics showing them in an odd manner, and part because they're assumed not to have them. |
** It goes the other way around too - part because of autistics showing them in an odd manner, and part because they're assumed not to have them. |
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* If ''Cracked.com'' is [http://www.cracked.com/article_17251_10-coolest-foreign-words-english-language-needs.html any source to go by], Koreans call this "lacking ''nunchi''", where ''nunchi'' is what keeps you from doing things like telling dirty jokes in church or bringing up the Holocaust at a bar mitzvah. |
* If ''Cracked.com'' is [http://www.cracked.com/article_17251_10-coolest-foreign-words-english-language-needs.html any source to go by], Koreans call this "lacking ''nunchi''", where ''nunchi'' is what keeps you from doing things like telling dirty jokes in church or bringing up the Holocaust at a bar mitzvah. |
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* In Japan, "KY" for "''[http://www.japanprobe.com/2007/06/07/japanese-schoolgirls-love-using-ky/ kuuki yomenai]''", literally "can't read the air," is a popular slang term among the younger generation. For situations where the person is ''really'' not paying attention, "CKY" for "''[http://jessejace.blogspot.com/2008/02/lets-learn-japanese-kuuki-yomenai.html chou kuuki yomenai]''", "really can't read the air". |
* In Japan, "KY" for "''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140417051940/http://www.japanprobe.com/2007/06/07/japanese-schoolgirls-love-using-ky/ kuuki yomenai]''", literally "can't read the air," is a popular slang term among the younger generation. For situations where the person is ''really'' not paying attention, "CKY" for "''[http://jessejace.blogspot.com/2008/02/lets-learn-japanese-kuuki-yomenai.html chou kuuki yomenai]''", "really can't read the air". |
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* Most forms of sign language used by Deaf people involve the use of facial expressions to convey subtleties of meaning, to the point where specific expressions have specific meanings. So much so that one of the biggest frustrations that many deaf people have when dealing with hearing people is that they are not expressive enough to understand them. |
* Most forms of sign language used by Deaf people involve the use of facial expressions to convey subtleties of meaning, to the point where specific expressions have specific meanings. So much so that one of the biggest frustrations that many deaf people have when dealing with hearing people is that they are not expressive enough to understand them. |
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