ABSTRACT
Even our language evokes gesturing. Words, plus the way we say them, work together to produce a double-edged expressiveness. Charles Darwin was evidently interested in such things. In his book, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, there is a photo of a man saying, “Ugh!” and a lady saying, “Sn…,” probably the fi rst two letters of the word “sneer. ” Here are some crude pen sketches of them.
