stackyFACTSYou might assume talking with your hands is purely for the listener's benefit, but it is actually for the speaker. Even people blind since birth passionately gesture while arguing with someone who also cannot see them. It proves that waving our arms is a mandatory, hardwired part of formulating a sentence.
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