- The sign for ‘let’s drink some vodka’ is made by holding the palm of one’s hand up to the side of one’s neck in a kind-of curved circle with thumb and middle finger together at the tips, and making a clicking sound with the tongue as one flicks his/her middle finger away towards her Adam’s Apple with the neck slightly up and out.
- In Mongolia there is also the finger-rating system: a thumbs-up is “the best,” turning your hand outward with only the forefinger extended (nail-side) and the others folded down (like in a fist) means “second best,” just the middle finger outward (as you might see someone in the West doing to be intentionally offensive) means “so-so/fair-to-middlin,” the fourth finger similarly extended means “bad,” and the pinky finger up alone with the rest of the of the fingers folded down means “the worst” or “this stinks.”
- People will call out one another’s name, or just loudly say (or shout) “Hoi!” or “Hoosh!”
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