This gesture is so iconic around the world that it transcends language. The Romans called it “digitus impudicus” – the shameless finger, and the Latin Poet, Martial, of the First Century AD, called it the “indecent one.” Today, most people call it “flipping the bird.” However you define it, “the finger” is part of our common universal language that has overtaken cultural, linguistic, and national boundaries making it hard to resist!
