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От : Dallas Hinton 1:153/7715 04 июл 26 10:05:37
К : Alexander Koryagin 04 июл 26 20:12:02
Тема : A liittle finger
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Hi, Alexander -- on Jul 01 2026 at 13:49, you wrote:
AK> Now I see where a drunk man stuck out finger came from. But I never
AK> saw a drunk person with his finger stuck out. Does it happen in
AK> England? :)
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The credible origin lies in Renaissance-era European court
etiquette. Fashionable people used three fingers to hold small items
(a convention borrowed partly from how one held a quill pen), leaving
the other fingers extended. This became associated with refinement and
was codified in etiquette manuals of the 17th-18th centuries.
The tea connection is specifically 18th-19th century British. As tea
culture spread through the aristocracy and upper middle class, delicate
porcelain teacups small and handleless at first, then with tiny handles were
genuinely harder to grip. The three-finger hold again left the pinky naturally
extended. It became a marker of gentility, imitated by those aspiring to
higher social status.
The irony: by the Victorian era, etiquette authorities like Charles
Day and later Emily Post actually disapproved of the extended pinky,
calling it affected and overdone. It was a middle-class affectation mocking
itself people performing "refinement" in a way that the genuinely refined
found vulgar.
Today it persists as a comedic shorthand for snobbery, which is
almost the opposite of its intended signal. It`s a gesture that outlived
its social context entirely and became a caricature of what it once
tried to signal.
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All of this to say that the lady was trying to be aristocracy and
failed miserably.
Cheers... Dallas
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