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From: ems@Apple.COM (Mike Smith)
Newsgroups: sci.misc,sci.psychology,comp.ai,comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Learned Behavior vs. Hard-Wired Behavior
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Date: 7 Dec 88 00:00:16 GMT
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>In article <208@logicon.arpa>, Makey@LOGICON.ARPA (Jeff Makey) writes:
>> A behavior that I once thought existed in all human cultures was
>> nodding ones head up and down to mean "yes" and shaking from side to
>> side to mean "no."  According to my girlfriend, who works for a
>> company that does international trading, there is at least one place
>> where this is not true.  I don't remember exactly where it is (Asian
>> continent, I think) but they nod for "no" and shake for "yes."  Their
>> word for "yes" even sounds like "nih", which would be taken for a "no"
>> in many languages.

The Japanese nod up&down for no... don't know how they pronounce it ...