On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 05:15:21PM -0500, Casey Rousseau <casey at trinityhartford.org> wrote: > Ryan asked: > > This leads me to believe that the standard definition of "shrug" is a > > visible, physical raising of the shoulders, and this brings me to my > > next question, which is: who shrugs? > I shrug. Sometimes it indicates indifference, often the movement of my > shoulders is subtle, perhaps barely noticible, esp. compared to the > simultaneous tilt of my head and possibly a facial cue. The absolute > minimalist shrug involves a raising and lowering of my right eyebrow and a > very slight grimace. It means I don't agree, but am not going to voice my > disagreement. That last is not a shrug, it's a spock. And /s/disagreement/mockery. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp