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Re: Yet Another Episode 1 Question
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Tue, 18 Apr 2000 16:07:40 GMT
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Kevin Wilson wrote:
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> Steve Bliss wrote:
> > As I understand, there used to be prejudice against left-handed people.
> > Even until fairly recently; teachers and parents would try to 'switch'
> > left-handed students to be right-handed. I've never experienced any
> > kind of negative prejudice because I'm left-handed, and I don't
> > seriously expect I ever will.
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> Indeed. I was startled to find out that my SO (age 43) was forced to use
> his right hand to write with instead of his left in elementary school by
> having his hands beaten with a ruler if he used the wrong one! The
> effects still show in his labored, barely legible writing and his hatred
> of writing. Apparently the teacher regarded left-handedness as actually
> *evil* in some way.
Sinister one might even say (for a very good example of the thinking of
"left" as bad). And of course right handed is good (dexter).
One supposed explanation of why left handed is bad is if you think about
troops in a shield wall, and how badly such a formation would be messed
up by a left hander.
--
Frank Filz
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| (...) Only if the rest of the wall is made up of those goofy right-handers I keep hearing about! On the other hand (!) to use another period example, a lefty fighting his way up a spiral staircase would be at an advantage, since such stairways (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I always thought it was because the left hand was the primordial "wiping hand"--most people preferring the right meant that one had to keep it clean. This may of course be apocryphal. I'm a lefty in writing only--I favour my right for (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| Ah, but the defenders coming DOWN would be better off being right-handed - so I guess you'd start hating southpaws if you were defending ;-) (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Indeed. I was startled to find out that my SO (age 43) was forced to use his right hand to write with instead of his left in elementary school by having his hands beaten with a ruler if he used the wrong one! The effects still show in his (...) (25 years ago, 18-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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