If I'm at home & yawn, I don't cover my mouth or snap my fingers over my mouth.
In public, Most people cover their mouths to stifle a yawn &/Or snap their fingers on their mouth to simulate an attempt to Perk-Themselves-Up!...realizing it's impolite to yawn in the presence of the company you're with...ie. It implies you're bored with them...and, is usually followed by an explanation, such as, " Sorry. I only had 3 hours sleep last night! "
And yes - I actually did Yawn while answering this Question - but I didn't cover my mouth, nor snap my fingers.....And it's not Your Question either...I tossed-and-turned all-night-long, last night!
2006-07-10 19:53:46
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answered by AlbertaGuy 5
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Because manners seem to be uncool today. Yeah I guess I did yawn a little. How weird? I did cover my mouth and I am the only one here except for the dog and cats and spider! The cats yawned also.
2006-07-10 19:49:15
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answered by Anonymous
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it truly is infectuous. i'm positive virtually all of us has examined this in some unspecified time sooner or later of their lives. A yawn is an truly deep breath and the similar old reason behind it truly is that we are drained and our respiratory has fallen lower than what it needed, so we are trying to make it up immediately. The yawn that comes when we see somebody else yawning in spite of the indisputable fact that is by using what's called suggestion. One celebration of suggestion is when we change into afraid because we see somebody else showing concern. yet another is when we snort because each and every individual round us is giggling. the skill of suggestion makes a yawn very catching. "virtually each and every vertebrate animal studied, from fish to cats and canines, yawns spontaneously as area of an evolutionary, historic, reflex reaction. only human beings and chimps, and probably the macaque monkey, were shown in medical checks to yawn infectiously One concept is that it has some thing to do with the undeniable reality that human beings once lived in troupes, clone of chimpanzees, and that it became significant to co-ordinate dozing, and so serving as a social signal. the present learn, in spite of the indisputable fact that, pinpoints the undeniable reality that contagious yawning seems to contain the very human trait of emotional empathy. human beings, uniquely, are waiting to imagine what somebody else is wondering or feeling. it truly is on the middle of empathy, and a reason you could still experience the pick to yawn even as watching somebody else yawn."
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answered by rudnick 3
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Yes actually I did yawn...... And to answer your first part.... I do pat my mouth when I yawn...... Funny huh... I have been on here for way too long today...... I keep waiting until I max out my Questions for the day but it seems to be bottomless today....... Ugh..... I want a high score too........ OK gripe gripe complain.......... Hey did you yawn reading my answer??? YAWN YAWN!!!!!!! LOL!!!!! Hey maybe the snappers do it in hope of waking them selves up!!! LOL!!!!!!!
2006-07-10 19:48:11
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answered by ~ Lavender ~ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 3
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they do that? I don't. I cover it or just open my mouth wide and yawn like a hippopotamus and let the flies go in, jst kidding. hei, yeah I did yawn!
2006-07-10 19:50:32
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answered by Anonymous
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I have no clue...I don't snap, I cover..Some people are just weird like that i guess.... But i did yawn when i read that question! Creepy....
2006-07-10 19:46:32
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answered by kiddo 2
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Snap their fingers? Do you mean pat their mouths??? If so, I don't know why, they probably saw someone esle do it...and no I didn't yawn.
2006-07-10 19:58:50
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answered by mitanbarr 3
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darn worked on me why you do that YAWN happy day
2006-07-10 19:46:19
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answered by Charles W 6
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snap? ive never seen anyone do this.....and no i didnt yawn.
2006-07-10 19:51:02
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answered by ? 6
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wtf when did ppl start snapin their fingers when yawning oh well thats weird but yeah i yawned
2006-07-10 20:11:32
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answered by raver_love420 2
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