I do not comply with you. Can you give me an example of what you are talking about? Actually: Just as a person tries to scratch his chin and ear simultaneously, so hold a fist long with his head, thumb and little finger.

Ok. and what does it mean? Can’t you guess?

Does it mean: “My ear and my chin itch each”? No! It means: “Name me.”

What? How do you do this? It’s imitating holding a telephone – the thumb is the earpiece, the little finger is the mouthpiece, and the fist is pretending to hold the long bit in the middle.

You’ve seen a telephone, haven’t you? I guess it won’t make much sense for people who have only ever used a flat, rectangular cell.

You are right, it won’t happen. Give me a great example. Fabulous. You lie in the air to write something with an invisible instrument.

Am I a teacher writing on a digital reality chalkboard during lockdown math class? No, you are asking for an invoice from the waiter.

Waiter? How did I even get to a restaurant? He is imaginary. You are merely indicating your readiness to write the check.

What to write? Or perhaps you are asking the waiter to please final tally the invoice.

Invoice is a PC printout. Are you ignorant or just annoying?

I am sure you will find that it is my job to be everyone. Thankfully, linguists have recognized your problem: Era Z has no living experience of the expertise on which these gestures are based. “Symbols that may be specific to pornographic devices will only be recognized by people who know about such devices,” says language expert Prof Vyav Evans.

Like old people like you. Perhaps. Recently a TikTok video of New Yorker Daniel Alvarado went viral after he filmed his two kids using a flat palm to speak a mime on the phone.

Issues change, that’s what you are saying. It’s a little more difficult than that.

I do not belive it. “The factor about gestures is that they are culture-specific and therefore mean different things to completely different socio-economic or generational teams,” Evans says.

It’s just an extra hard way to make that claim. Yet another: A police officer pulls over you, approaches your automobile and makes a hand-cranking movement. Why?

I know this: We’re attending Charioteer, and he’s telling me it’s a movie. That’s all right – good luck to you.

Say: “That’s 2020, Grandpa. If you’ve got something to say, just text me.”

Don’t say: “How many syllables, officer?”