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Re: Lavender Brick Society
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Date:
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Mon, 20 Sep 2004 14:26:49 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Allister McLaren wrote:
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There was a time when being left-handed was looked down upon. Great lengths
were taken in schools to get kids to go against their nature and many were
forced into writing with the right hand.
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Language even still reflects this, as most of us use the “right” hand, and an
outmoded synonym for the left is “sinister”.
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Of course, society is much more grown up about this now, and people can write
with whichever hand they are most comfortable with.
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You’d think so, but it’s not completely true. Left-handers get left alone, but
ambidextrous people might not. I have a friend who’s about 30 right now, and he
once told me that when he was growing up he could write equally well with either
hand (and usually wrote with whichever hand was most conveniently able to grab a
writing utensil, IIRC), but his teacher kept chiding him for writing with the
“wrong hand” when she caught him using his left, until eventually she’d trained
it out of him. Now he can only write with his right hand.
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| "Purple Dave" <purpledave@maskofdestiny.com> wrote in message news:I4CG4p.nt4@lugnet.com... (...) alone, but (...) and he (...) either (...) grab a (...) the (...) trained (...) I can only write with my left hand.. and only use a scissor with my (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) There was a time when being left-handed was looked down upon. Great lengths were taken in schools to get kids to go against their nature and many were forced into writing with the right hand. Of course, society is much more grown up about this (...) (20 years ago, 20-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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