How to say... (without words)?

Today let me introduce the "strange" world of Mexican gestures to you. In many situations gestures are used. Sometimes it's because you can't understand each other like in the disco or between two drivers. And sometimes I guess Mexicans are just to lazy to open their mouth.

To say "yes", you open and close your index finger while the rest of the hand is closed. I don't know how to describe this in a better way therefore I add some pictures.



If you want to say "no", you show the back of your index finger and move your hand from one side to the other while the rest of the fingers is closed.




To say "thank you", you make this gesture. It took me some time to get used to that. Before, I had known this gesture only from German drivers where it definitly doesn't mean "thanks";-)


You make this gesture in order to say "sorry". I guess it represents a person falling to their knees.





And this means "gay". It is used by Mexicans, for example, when they talk about Ronaldinho (this really happened in a bar in Papantla).




Special note to Mr. Ronaldinho's lawyer: I didn't say Ronaldinho is gay.