[Linganth] Middle finger as informal greeting

[monaghan at indiana.edu]

Hi.  I'm writing a paper on student doing conversational analysis based
ethnographies and the question of using the middle finger as a casual greeting
has come up.

Have other people seen/heard of this phenomenon?  It seems to be common among
male undergrads and grad students here at Indiana University but I don't know
if it is just an IU phenomenon or is broader spread than that.

Amazing where this profession of ours leads us!

all best,

Leila

Leila Monaghan, PhD
Department of Communication and Culture
Indiana University
monaghan at indiana.edu