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Italians are famous for their body language. The beginning of this curious kind of language, was in years of conquests and migrations. In Italy lived people from different countries that they had to find a way to comunicate: the simpler way was the body language. When an Italian touches every fingertip each other and shakes his hand, means "what are you saying?!" or "what do you want?!", insted, when he's hungry, he shakes his hand with the fingertip toward the mouth. Another way to say "I'm hungry" is hit the stomach with the index of the open hand, but if you see him touch his chest in the same way, means "he's unpleasant". He kisses his fingertip, and then open his hand immediately, when he want to say "It's delicious". Open and close the fingertip quickly, means "Are you afraid?!", this is such a provocation or a joke. When he shakes his open hand up and down, means "I'm going to beat you!" or "he will want to hit you", insted when he hits, with the hand's palm, his forehead, means "I forgot!".

Mister Micawber · Accepted Answer

Very interesting topic. I have underlined some problems:

Italians are famous for their body language. The beginning of this curious kind of language, was in years of conquests and migrations. In Italy lived people from different countries that they had to find a way to comunicate: the simpler way was the body language. When an Italian touches every fingertip each other and shakes his hand, means "what are you saying?!" or "what do you want?!", insted, when he's hungry, he shakes his hand with the fingertip toward the mouth. Another way to say "I'm hungry" is hit the stomach with the index of the open hand, but if you see him touch his chest in the same way, means "he's unpleasant". He kisses his fingertip, and then open his hand immediately, when he want to say "It's delicious". Open and close the fingertip quickly, means "Are you afraid?!", this is such a provocation or a joke. When he shakes his open hand up and down, means "I'm going to beat you!" or "he will want to hit you", insted when he hits, with the hand's palm, his forehead, means "I forgot!"

Chiachen · Answer

Italians are well known for their body language. The culmination of these peculiar physical expression and gestures was through years of conquests of and migrations. In Italy, people were from different country, so they had to find a way to understand each other, and the easiest way was using body language. When an Italian touches and hold all fingertipstogether and shakes his hand, it means "what are you saying?!" or "what do you want?!" While using the same hand gesture but with the fingertips toward the mouth, it means "I am hungry," Another way of saying "I'm hungry" is hitting the stomach with the index finger and a open hand, but if you see one touches his chest in the same way, it means "he's unpleasant." Also one kisses his fingertip and then opens his hand immediately, when he wants to say "It's delicious". Open and close the fingertips quickly means "Are you afraid?!" such is often a provocation or a joke. When one shakes his open hand up and down, it means "I'm going to beat you!" or "I will hit you" ;however?, when he hits his forehead with his palm, it means "I forgot!"
Would you kindly help me with this revision exercise.

Mister Micawber · Answer

You have decided to change parts that I did not indicate—and to no particular advantage that I can see.  Therefore, I will leave this for someone else to expend their energy upon.

Chiachen · Answer

Thank you anyway. I'm not good in writing. Working from the underlines you provided, I could only guess what changes possibly needed to make the writing OK.
To live is to learn. Hope someone can help me out here.

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