Silly question of the day

[dougo]

Do French speakers use « guillemets d'air »? What does the hand motion look like?

Update: Wikipedia has an article about air quotes, which does not answer the question but is amusing.

Update 2: Wikipedia also has a stub article about scare quotes, which mentions air quotes but doesn't link to the air quotes article. Someone with more energy (and Wikipedia-modifying experience) than me may want to fix this.

Comments

yes they do

[talking-sock.livejournal.com]

My favorite quote from the trip to Normandy was a guy at a restaurant accusing the person across from him: "tu es toujours entre guillemets" with the hand gesture.