It matters not what language you speak, once someone signals you the middle finger (or flip the bird as Americans call it), you know the person has just made a comment ‘fuck you’.
Now you don’t need good translator to grab what ‘fuck you’ means. It’s an expression of the worst form of contempt and disregard. But how did it become what it is today?
Greek playwright Aristophanes wrote about this horrible gesture in his play The Clouds in 423 BC. The gesture was used in a crude way to show the male genitalia: the middle finger represented the penis while the curled fingers beside it were the testicles. The Romans gave it this name digitus impudicus or the indecent finger.
Since then it’s been a very offensive gesture frowned upon by society. Now you know. You can thank us later.
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