What’s The Meaning of a Reversed-Peace Sign?

September 1st, 2010 by [re-arrange] Leave a reply »

Yo nigga! picture: credit to Uncyclopedia

A reversed peace sign might be a cool or cute gesture especially when you’re snapped for a picture. I’ve seen a lot of pictures that gives the reversed peace sign, no matter by guys or girls (some of the pictures are nice pictures e.g of iftar, or after Terawih?) I won’t deny that sometimes I do that gesture myself too. I understand what I’m doing, but do you really understand what does it really mean, actually?

It actually means “Up yours” or “Fuck you“. It is similar to the middle-finger sign. Yes, you’re actually cursing whenever you’re trying to be cute. LOLOLOL laughing

No, I’m not kidding and this is not a joke. This is serious business. This is true in United Kingdom and US, and even being accepted as the correct insulting gestures in China. Quoting from the Uncyclopedia:

The Chinese consider it to be the retarded brother of the normal Peace Sign and have adapted it to mean Fuck you.

The outward-palm V sign is still acceptable and that mean “peace” or “victory”. But the reversed of it — you better watch yourself if you’re in someone else country! You don’t want people there to chase you away or may even hit you! LOL.

Tak puas hati lagi?

Here’s another explanation in a more reliable source, Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_sign#Inverted_V_sign_as_an_insult

According to a popular legend the two-fingers salute and/or V sign derives from the gestures of longbowmen fighting in the English army at the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years’ War. The story claims that the French claimed that they would cut off the arrow-shooting fingers of all the English and Welsh longbowmen after they had won the battle at Agincourt. But the English came out victorious and showed off their two fingers, still intact. Historian Juliet Barker quotes Jean Le Fevre (who fought on the English side at Agincourt) as saying that Henry V included a reference to the French cutting off longbowmen’s fingers in his pre-battle speech.

So, are you actually being cute, or you’re actually being rude? tongue

Cute, or rude, or about to be killed? (Credits: Uncyclopedia)

Advertisement


Malaysia Web Hosting



13 comments

  1. nadxoxo says:

    hoho baru saya tahu!

  2. fiexa says:

    erk, sure eh?
    selalu gak la menggedix depan kamera camni.
    ~_~

    • [re-arrange] says:

      fiexa, very sure. i’ve been knowing this since the hip-hop times (time2 Eminem naik kot?).

      It just occured to me to blog about this now — because I saw a very nice picture (gadis Melayu bertudung) making this gesture.

      I thought — omg did she know what does that actually mean?

  3. Hi! this was a great post youve made. I will make sure to forward this with my colleagues. Sign language is a very serious topic we should improve in our society

    • [re-arrange] says:

      Hi! Please do forward if it’s beneficial. Hope that people can understand what does the sign really means. winking

  4. fiexa says:

    perhaps myself is one d ‘gadis melayu bertudung’. sigh~ shud be more alert next time.
    btw, just found this blog is something informative & quite nice to be followed. thanks 4 all d info. sile share lagik. happy

  5. Huda Engku says:

    hoho.. so tis was y it was such a big deal to my friends masa kat UK dlu, tahu kalau reversed peace sign adalah something bad tapi tak pnah tahu pun apakah yg bad about it.

    duh. mereka ini. tak cukup mencarut dgn kata2. mencarut dengan jari-jemari pula. tak syg anugerah Tuhan langsung!

Trackbacks /
Pingbacks

  1. soforce.com