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fredpuli47 | 00:05 Mon 21st Jun 2010 | Society & Culture
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Is applauding by clapping the hands together universal or are there, or have there been, societies where it is not done?
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Avatar Image MarkRae
Deaf people applaud by waving.
00:06 Mon 21st Jun 2010
Avatar Image stewey
Fred, Google "ululation".
08:32 Mon 21st Jun 2010
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Mediaeval people benged their hands against the table.
08:35 Mon 21st Jun 2010
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.............unless they didn't have a table handy to 'beng'...........(v. posh !) :o)
08:38 Mon 21st Jun 2010
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England fans keep their hands in their pockets.
08:39 Mon 21st Jun 2010
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LOL Jack.

Surely everyone "bengs" don't they ??

=0)
08:42 Mon 21st Jun 2010
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I think I read somewhere it started with the Romans. (And there are still arguments about whether thumbs up meant 'live' or 'die', so the evidence for this sort of thing isn't all that obvious.)
20:18 Wed 23rd Jun 2010

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