An old friend asked me (a propos of this cartoon) what air quotes are. A fair question. I responded with a tutorial, which I’m sharing with any of you who have yet to explore this powerful means of self-expression:
- Hold up your hands beside your head.
- Make fists.
- Extend the index and middle fingers of each hand.
- While saying something intended to be surrounded by quotation marks, wiggle your fingers.
- (For advanced users) Adopt this process as an irritating mannerism
Is text not your cup of tea? (If not, you may be very well-suited to air quotes.) Try this video tutorial instead:
