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| niharika |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 08:43 AM
I am left handed. Left handed folks are either 1) highly intelligent or 2) show psychopathic tendencies! There is no in-between.
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| thapap |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 08:59 AM
niharika,
great so which one are you ??? 1 or 2.... (o: kidding okey....
here is the list of some famous lefties...
http://www.indiana.edu/~primate/left.html
pls tell me with whom you resemble most ... okey like to know....
-pt
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| Arnico |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 10:54 AM
Hi Niharika.
I am left handed. But am neither (1) nor (2)...
Arnico.
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| Suna |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 11:12 AM
Niharka
I am neither but I am BOTH!
:)
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| Suna |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 11:13 AM
lol CORRECTION
I am righthanded: and I am BOTH!
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| najar |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 11:19 AM
Me too, Suna :)
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| bhedo |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 11:28 AM
I too am left handed. My grandfather is left handed (actually ambidexterous, but he would have developed into a full fledged leftie had he not been coerced to use his right hand), and so are some of my cousins. Being left handed doesn't mean that I do everything with my left hand. I wipe my butt with my right hand, because the toilet-paper holder is usually to the right of the toilet (j/k. Actually left hand is supposed to be the hand you wipe your butt with, or at least that's what my grandparents made me believe).
Oh, and dyslexia is more prevalent among lefties. When I was a kid, I used to confuse letters "b" and "d", and so my teacher thought that I was dyslexic. But I don't think I am. When I was in my fourth grade, my teacher tried teaching me to write with my right hand. She gave up after a week. I am also left eye, btw.
We are special people. Remember that, Niharika.
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| Poonte |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 11:30 AM
I am righty, but when it comes to...you know what...I can be either, or both! :P
La jaa re kya ajha jhanai laaaast ma!
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| niharika |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 11:41 AM
I actually am psychopathic. This happened when I was 13. Once, a few neighborhood hoodlums were bothering my brother. Since he's my baby brother, I made it my duty to protect him. And you won't believe it. I whooped them all!!!!!! One of them was hospitalized. I broke every bone in his face. After that, I was the neighborhood bully! You all should fear me!!!!!
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| Arnico |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 11:47 AM
Niharika, as a fellow lefty, why should I fear you?
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| SimpleGal |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 01:13 PM
Niharika,
Before I disclose the nature of my handedness, I just wanted to inquire of your interest. It would be interesting to know. :)
I am left handed. Only one in my family.
Intelligent??? Well, that would depend on how you define Intelligence, would it not? You tread on thin ice if you are using the concept as a (neo) Eugenist. Hope that's not the case with you.
Psychopathic??? You mean like Hannibal Lecter?? Khoi, lemme check "who I'm having for dinner." ;)
In peace.
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| niharika |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 02:09 PM
:) You're taking me too seriously Simplegal. Not that it really matters, but it's good to know there's another gal who's left-handed. Hard to run into a Nepali who's left handed, know what I mean? I was just curious is all.
So then, what body part are you eating? "Liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti", I presume?????
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| KaLaNkIsThAn |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 02:20 PM
Well i am both handed.
Guess how!!
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| SimpleGal |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 03:17 PM
Hahaha Niharika, you are intelligent, I must say! Will pass the liver entree, and since I like "bhundi" so maybe I'll opt for that instead!! :)
But dear, the incident you narrate about bullying the guys in the neighborhood does not, for some weird reason, register in my mind as exemplifying "psychopathic" nature. You were merely protecting your baby brother, hoina ta? :) Good for you! But why do you want people to fear you? Just curious like yourself! Enlighten me, por favor!
In peace.
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| SITARA |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 05:06 PM
Arnico!!!!!
Good to see you! Missed your presence out here!...Say hello to.....our friend!
:)
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| SITARA |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 05:08 PM
Kalanki Ji,
Both handed means ambidexterous!
So, ....does that mean, you are also back-handed, fore-handed, overhead and a slam too, net-drop??????????? hehe! (sorry tennis terms!)
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| bhedo |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 06:31 PM
Simplegal didi is left-handed too? Good news!!!!!! Always knew we have something in common. Our bond is stronger now. Ki kaso ho?
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| oys_chill |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 06:48 PM
I have always wondered bout the leftists!
not how many, but WHY ARE SOME PEOPLE LEFT HANDED!
~TO LET THE WORLD KNOW WHAT'S right for them???? :O
~ So that they can shake hands while eating?? :O
but this is my favourite:
"oiee bacha, talai ta debre haat le haraidinchu" ...speaking from experience, pardon my ignorance ppl, left handed seem to bear ali lefty lefty deviant views ;)
Love all, Trust Few!
Oys
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| SimpleGal |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 07:54 PM
Bhedo bhai,
Yep. Indeed, the lefties have a strong sense of solidarity amongst themselves. Esp. among Nepalis, who are encouraged, as you pointed out, to be right handed. Left-handedness is considered to this day as "inauspicious" in our culture. Hence Nepali lefties are few and far between.
Biologically speaking, handedness reflects the opposite hemisphere of the brain at work. For instance, if you are left-handed, you tend to use the right part of your brain more actively than the left, and the reverse for right-handed people. It quite escapes me at the moment regarding the specific traits that tend to be associated with each hemisphere of the brain. Any biology/genetics people at sajha who can perhaps shed shed more light on it? But then again, they are not indespensable, definitive, and/or exclusive traits!! :) Rather, handedness tends to be a hodgepodge of traits from both parts of our brain, provided of course, that it's functioning on some level. But then again, we run into the nagging business of what "functioning" really entails. Oh!The perils of generalizations and the plights of the human mind!!!
Oys-ji, now now, I wouldn't use such an acute term as "deviant" to describe leftists! :) We would then be warring ineffectually in the age-old and excruciatingly blurry zone of "Normality" vs. "Abnormality." But I do realize that you may have posed it in good humor, ki kaso?? ;)
In peace.
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| HahooGuru |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 08:21 PM
I am left handed.
Left handed have some difficulties:
writing english or Nepal: left to rightwards. While using fountain pain, your hand get dirty, because pen is on right side of hand. Its like driving BMW in right hand driving countries. When you write with left hand, you don't see what you wrote, because your hand just hides it. Therefore, left hand writers don't have good hand writing. Khattam hand writing. The other reason for worst hand writing by left handed peoples is that the scripts are made by right hand writers, thus the scrip are easy in aligning rightward, but, left hand has difficulty in making the script inclined to right direction, thus, lefthand writers are pushing the pen, not pulling it.
Warning to right hand writers: never give your expensive fountain pen to left hand writers, because your pen will become bad, if not broken. Vice versa is also true. Well, ball pen is not problem.
Well, left handed peoples can write things left inclined, that make pull type, but, it will be very odd, not so good.
Best things with left handed people is the mouse of the computer. Your main hand is always free, while you play with computer using the right hand.
Anyway, life is not easy, when world is dominated by right hand. As I said before, its like driving expensive BMW or Mercedez cars in left lanes of road, well, experience drivers like me "hehehe" have no problem, but, young drivers have more chances to suffer. Well, the life get expensive, e.g. base ball: you won't get discounted glove. Golf: you will not get the handglove so easily. ............. Life is really terrible. When you are in Asia where peoples are very specific to which hand you have to use, e.g. in Thailand, then, you will be in trouble "no way to raise left hand to say HI!".
Well, guys, niharika said, I fall into psychopathetic, because I am not genious. I am so sad, I fall into negative end of life. K Garne!
HG
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| SimpleGal |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 08:41 PM
Harey Shiva! HG-ji, yo ta bhaena ni....but I will have to agree that it's not easy to be a left-handed person in a world dominated by the right-handed ones. The horror is often the half-desks. Most of them are for the right-handed ones, and the few left-handed desks are a treasure that every lefty is vying for! :)
Another one is the water faucet. The "cold" water one is on the right, the "hot" on the left. And being the latter oriented, I tend to inadvertently reach out for the hot water faucet and get burnt often. :( At restaurants, if my friend is sitting next to me, his/her elbow and mine keep bumping into each other and it gets frustrating.
You are right about Thailand. Lived there for a LONG time as a gal. Even in our culture, for instance, when you put tika on some, esp. during Bhai tika, you are supposed to use the right "auspicious" hand. My brothers always dread it because with my right hand, lord knows what the shape of the tika may turn out to be. :)
Woes of being lefty!
In peace.
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| HahooGuru |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 09:20 PM
SimpleGal,
At restaurants, if my friend is sitting next to me, his/her elbow and mine keep bumping into each other and it gets frustrating.
--
You spoke my heart and my daily problem. Well, I always in lunch time to dinner,
have to find the end most seat. In air-plane has to aplogize all the time with the neighbour, in last trip to Korea too, I had to apologize with the lady when my
left hand striked her body. Disgusting indeed. Except computer's mouse, I find it nowhere benefecial. Let me know if you see any thing lefty people enjoy.
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| Arnico |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 09:27 PM
HG, you can always switch the mouse buttons (through the control panel in Windows), and then put the mouse on the left side. I even switch the buttons on the laptop. Of course then everyone else using your computer will swear at you!
And Simplegal, I have spent a lot of time in Thailand too. And way too often have caught myself giving things with my left hand (in Nepal as well).
Arnico.
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| bhedo |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 09:32 PM
I have the jhoorest, khattamest handwriting you will ever come across! I write like a Kindergarten kid. People thought I'd become a doctor because of my hopeless handwriting. But I had no interest in medicine.
I have a hard time eating with fork, for some reason. A lefty friend of mine has the same problem. After the food falls off his fork, he always glances at me and smiles weakly , like he is truly embarassed.
I too have the problem of bumping my elbow with the right handed fellow sitting next to me. And I spread my elbow more than a normal person would when writing. So you can imagine how hard life is for me.
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| SimpleGal |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 09:49 PM
Arnicoji,
I was living in Thailand in the mid-80's as a kid....maybe things have changed over time. Good for you. Yes, increasingly, left-handedness is being accepted in Nepal, but depends on where you are. Like my grandmother still does not permit me to use my left hand to do things that are designated rights of the right hand. :P
In peace.
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| Junkie |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 09:50 PM
I agree about the bad writing of "leftist" ...... Even when I type, my bad stupidity reflects.
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| Arnico |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 09:56 PM
SimpleGal, khun phoot phasha thai dai mai khap?
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| HahooGuru |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 09:57 PM
Junkie, are you making fun on me?
Heheh. we have similarities. right? or left?
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| HahooGuru |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 09:58 PM
Arnico and SimpleGal,
Sawadi Khap!
Mai pin lai khap!
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| Junkie |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 10:00 PM
left left HahooGuru :=)) ..... Hahoo jee: Does it sound like I mock you? ..... maff pau Sarkar ..... Maybe "I" didn't stress that "I" part enuff .....
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| SITARA |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 10:08 PM
I work with many children who are left-handed. Their dominant hand does not show up until they are 3 or 4 yrs old. I can see the confusion for them while experimenting with both hands. During the experimental stage, they are ambidextrous but at the dominance take over, they seem less frustrated. It is even more confusing to the unwary teacher who cannot seem to make the child hold a pencil, a fork, or even open the door with his/or her right hand.
As an educational counselor, I am continuously watching for shifts in hand dominance. I do sympathize with "lefties" because the world (in general) is made for the "righties". When I am giving lessons, I have to constantly watch that the child is sitting on my right while I try to modify the lesson to suit his/her needs!
Simple Gal, Hahoo Guru ji, Bhedo ji and Arnico.....
Your description of the little things (for us righties) makes me aware of the difficulties that arise (for the "lefties") at every turn.
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| Arnico |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 10:27 PM
But Sitara,
there are also bright sides to it. Playing volleyball or table tennis, lefties can take unaware righties by surprise! :)
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| SITARA |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 10:33 PM
Arnico...
Come to think of it:
Tennis!!!! My sparring partner when I was a teenager... used to slam me! My back hand was lousy... and guess where I lost!
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| VillageVoice |
Posted
on 11-Nov-02 11:21 PM
Never realized the little problems of you lefties, except with the arm-chair. Will be more mindful the next time round :)
As a matter of fact, whenever I think of great handwriting I can't help recalling a left-handed friend in school. He was a great athlete too and had that lazy elegance about him.
Personally, I have always found lefties graceful/elegant. Maybe it has a lot to do with my love for the game of cricket. Love to watch left-handed batsmen and leftarm bowlers.
Arnico's right, I always find it difficult playing against the lefties - cricket, table tennis, badminton.
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| SimpleGal |
Posted
on 12-Nov-02 08:12 AM
Arnico,
You wrote: khun phoot phasha thai dai mai khap?
Me write: Nit noi.
I hear your better half is from the beautiful land of the White Elephant! :)
HG-ji,
Sawadi khaa! :)
In peace.
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| HahooGuru |
Posted
on 12-Nov-02 08:44 AM
Panday, Arnico
(attended Lincoln School 1985-1992)
Yo Sajhapur Basinda herda ta afuta khate nepali pariyechha yaar. Sab elite haru rahechhan. jealous garna bhayena, afu pariyo dhunga bokera school thadyaera bhai purera pokhari ko mato le purera potera chakati ma bashera padhya, bhanna pani laaj lagne. mitra (mitra bhanda narishaunu hai: khate le hami elite lai mitra bhanne bhanera) ho kasto khate sajhapur ma fela parecha hami elite ko bichama bhanera.
I remember a joke told by my father. ek jana baule sano restaurant ma gayera khayechha, usko chhora le chai 5* ma gayer luncha khayechha. chhorale sodhechha usko bau lai, why don't you come with me in the 5* hotel and have lunch together. Then, the father replied: because your father is rich, you can go to 5* hotel's restaurant, but, my father was not rich. I wish I can give this explanation to my kids.
(afu lai dhani bhanna khojeko hoina, tara pani my father is not rich as compared to my son's father, this much I can claim to be true). Arnico maile tapaiko daad gareko hoina, ma tarseko matra, ki yasto elite haru pani communicating with me khate so nicely.
HG
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| HahooGuru |
Posted
on 12-Nov-02 08:46 AM
The data was searched using Google. So, please don't mind for posting it here. Google has made world no more private. Regret for this situation. Privacy is prime important, and will remain a big issue. HG
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| HahooGuru |
Posted
on 12-Nov-02 08:53 AM
I remember my father said the joke when a close relative of mine went to "boarding school in kathmandu" and I asked my father, why can not he send me to better school, and I told him I am tired of dhunga bokda bokda. That explanation really satisfied me.
HG
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| Arnico |
Posted
on 12-Nov-02 10:55 AM
HG, fyi, I was among a small number of Nepali students who had the opportunity to attend Lincoln School on scholarships. I also spent much of my pre-school years in a village in Sindhu Palchok, 6 hours walk from the nearest road. I don't consider myself to be among the "elite" (not even ethnically, my ancestors are Magars from Palpa, who migrated to Lamjung, on to Gorkha with Drabya Shah, and through service in Prithvi Narayan Shah's army, were "promoted" to being able to marry Chhetri such that little of the Magar genes remain in me today). Ani, tapainlai jhan tarsauna: if you e-mail me your phone number in Japan I will call you next time I pass through Narita...
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| oys_chill |
Posted
on 12-Nov-02 02:03 PM
simple gal lai complex way ma slam dunk hanna kalle sikaos?
of course, the entire post was supposed to be humorous...what can we do? when ppl are so much into the humerus related case than the humorous :( tsk tsk @ me....
btw, deviant chai........NO JOKING NO KIDDEINg...speaking from experience bhanya ni lajja.........in any case gals ta are janmadai evil ;) ...should i repeat the theory again......guru ji, its not entropic :) copied and pasted from my roomie's door:
gals = evil
**********
gals = time * money
in today's world; time = money
mm that makes, gals = money ^2
money is the root of all evil :(
gals = evil QED :)
simple galji, hope to get more of yor slams....i am interested in the 360 degree one ;)
all in good faith :)
oys
"humor is important in life, for life is dead serious ..re kya ajha last ma ;)
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| tizzy |
Posted
on 15-Nov-02 02:19 PM
...hehehe this is for bhedo...i'm a lefty too..n glad to know theres someone else in this friggin world who wipes his butt with his right hand!! phew...a relief....n yea..me too used to get confused with the b's n the d's ....the wierd part is...i get confused even while typing...like...do u know what i mean..dhebo ji?? see..i told ya!!....one more wierd thing my grannys ..both o'em are/were lefties....is it heriditary??
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| bhedo |
Posted
on 15-Nov-02 05:06 PM
Well, majority of left handers are born to right handed parents. It could be a recessive trait, I don't really know. Suppose a husband and a wife both have a recessive gene, "l" that causes left-handedness. Since it's a recessive trait, the probability that their progeny will be left handed will only be about 25%. Plus, there could be a HANDFUL of genes that cause left-handedness. For instead, if your dad has left-handedness gene "l" and your mom has left-handedness gene "r", you're not going to be left-handed because the two genes are totally different. Mind you though, I don't know much about what causes left-handedness. I am just surmising. My grandfather is ambidexterous. I personally think he would have been a left-handed person if there were no social taboos placed on left-handedness. I have a few cousins who are also left handed.
Lefties are more prone to dyslexia. Even if I have dyslexia, it's just a benign version, which I have managed to cope with without feeling any effects of the malady whatsoever. But I have noticed that I am bad with directions.
Oh yeah, lefties are also more likely to be Mensa members.
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| HahooGuru |
Posted
on 24-Nov-02 06:03 PM
An interesting article on why we walk or drive on left side of the road: http://www.2pass.co.uk/goodluck.htm (excerpts)
In britain:
"Up to the late 1700's, everybody travelled on the left side of the road because it's the sensible option for feudal, violent societies of mostly right-handed people. Jousting knights with their lances under their right arm naturally passed on each other's right, and if you passed a stranger on the road you walked on the left to ensure that your protective sword arm was between yourself and him."
In france:
"Revolutionary France, however, overturned this practice as part of its sweeping social rethink. A change was carried out all over continental Europe by Napoleon.The reason it changed under Napoleon was because he was left handed his armies had to march on the right so he could keep his sword arm between him and any opponent."
In Japan:
http://www.2pass.co.uk/japan.htm
In Nepal:
(well, it is true that british system was adopted .... But but, we have to do research whether we were really influenced by British India?).
It might be concidence or british influence prevailed, but, I remember my mother used to force me to keep GOD or GODDESS in temples on right side ? Don't we make a round in temples keeping the temple or god's statue on right side? I think we need to have some research on this left hand side fundas....
Final comment:
Think and analyze and justify what you do today has in fact historical reason, and get rid of colonial mind.
HG
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| HahooGuru |
Posted
on 24-Nov-02 10:05 PM
HG Jee, (avatar switched)
Asti (MOMO party ke) dherai ramailo gairyo ! pheri pheri ramailo garoun ! find herewith an article on Being LEFTIST !!!!!!
Being Extraordinary in an Ordinary World
Ajay Das
It was my first attempt to learn guitar when I was in my high school; but I was shocked for the first time to be left-handed as my teacher told me to bring an opposite stringed guitar. Later I gave up the idea to learn guitar. Even in my university-days the clumsy chairs in the English Department left me little baffled. Those chairs with the wooden slabs affixed on the right arm were entirely designed for the right-handed students only. I just could not figure out why, out of almost sixty chairs, there was not even a single chair allocated for the left-handed students.
These are the few of several examples of how left-handed people face adversity each day as they struggle to live in a world designed for right-handed people. From scissors to camcorders to screw drivers and power drills to hockey sticks to guitars, lefties learn early on that they need to develop skills to live in a world designed for right-handed people. There are many things that may put left-handed people to inconvenience such as scissors, a computer mouse, notebooks, rulers, remote controls, potato peelers and almost all cooking utensils. Left-handed students also have a hard time when it comes to sitting at a table with right-handed students because they constantly bump their elbows with them. Similarly they have to sit at the end of the dining table to prevent a clash of elbows and cutlery and always feel bother by that. Even wristwatches, with he winder on the wrong side, are awkward for lefties. I have, however, learnt to wear a battery-operated (no winding ) watch on my right wrist.
Another important factor to consider is a computer mouse; they are always made for right-handed people. Of course, one can buy a special left-handed one, but it is inconvenient if he uses a computer anywhere else. It is almost as if left-handed people are discriminated against. Everything is oriented to right-handed people. Every day left-handed people struggle in a right-handed world. There are many different factors in the environment that may pose problems for left-handed people. The problem is that the majority of people are right-handed and products are often made for right-handed individuals without any thought being put into whether or not it will work for a left-handed person as well.
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| HahooGuru |
Posted
on 24-Nov-02 10:06 PM
For years now, mankind has been searching for the answers to the questions - why people prefer one hand over the other, why the majority of people choose the right hand, and why the left hand is chosen in such a minority. Some research suggests that there is a biological determinant of handedness, while other suggests that it is simply a learned behaviour. Medical researchers have searched long and hard for what causes people to be left-handed or right handed. The researchers have concluded that left-handed people are left handed for the same reason as brown-eyed people have brown eye.
Historically, left-handed have encountered a lot of troubles. Prejudices against left-handers are bountiful for throughout history lefties have been considered inferior. Religion has played an important part in oppressing the image of left hand. Centuries ago, the Catholic church declared left-handed people to be ‘servant of the Devil’. For generations, left-handers who attend Catholic schools were forced to become right-handed. Only a few decades ago in Japan, left-handedness in a wife was sufficient ground for divorce. The wedding ring is placed on the left hand in order to chase away evil spirits that may haunt the marriage. In Arab nations, the right hand is used to touch parts of the body above the waist, while the left hand is used for below the navel. Natives of Guinea coast never touch their left thumbs to their beer mugs, in the belief that it would poison the beverage. This comes true to our own culture as once an old man in the village feast flatly refused to have the dishes served by me. The reason was very simple; I served him with the spoon held in my left-hand. We can understand why left-handers might have a few hang-ups when we look at how harshly they have been treated throughout history. Things got so bad in the 1600’s that they were burnt at stake. Even our language still cast a stigma on the left side. Languages from around the world show how civilizations prefer the right over the left. The word ‘left’ comes from an Old English word meaning ‘weak’ or ‘worthless’. The Italian word ‘mancino’ is translated to ‘deceitful’ as well as ‘left’. ‘No ser zurdo’ is Spanish phrase meaning ‘to be very clever’, which is literally translated to mean ‘not to be left-handed’. In English, the world ‘adroit’ is commonly used to mean ‘proper’ or ‘correct’. In French, the word ‘adroit’ means ‘right’. The English usage of the word ‘gauche’ is accepted as meaning ‘clumsy’, or ‘awkward’. In French, it is translated to mean ‘left’. The Roman word for ‘left’ is ‘sinister’, and the phrase meaning ‘masturbation’ is translated to ‘left-handed whore’. ‘Linkisch’ is German for ‘awkward’ and ‘left’. In Nepalese context, ‘to be the apple of somebody’s eye’ is to be ‘right-hand man’. If someone is scolded to be the most inferior person, he is compared with the tip of the little finger of the left hand.
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| HahooGuru |
Posted
on 24-Nov-02 10:06 PM
In the ages past, society was not sympathetic to left-handed person. Earlier, right-handed teacher and parents went to great extremes to deter the use of the left hand. Young students who preferred using their left hand to write were punished for doing so. Some of these students, after enormous effort, eventually learned to write with their right and finally developed them as ambidextrous. I still, remember one of my cousins who, being lefty, was forced to write with right hand when he was a kid and now his handwriting looks like a five-year-old boy. Being left-handed means that a person uses the right side of his brain for many functions including control of his language skills. This, in many ways, plays a vital role in speech and language disorders like stuttering and dyslexia. Thankfully, I grew up in a society fortunate enough to allow left-handedness. It has been estimated - and this is very rough - that about 13 percent of the world population is left -handed
. Handedness not only involves hands, but the rest of the body as well. A left-handed person has the tendency to use his left eye when peering though a microscope and will usually place his left foot forward first when walking. Southpaws tend to be slightly more expressive with the left side or their face; winking is easier and their smile tends to curve up slightly more. The reverse is true for the right-handed. From different research papers, I have learnt that lefties adapt faster than any other group of people. Right-handed people, who try and use something designed for a lefty find it a much harder than the southpaws do using something new designed for a righty. I have also learnt that lefties are more open-minded and are quicker on their feet.
Some dated medical research reported that left-handedness have a shorter life span than right-handed people, more accidents and more psychological disorders. Southpaws are more susceptible to allergies, auto-immune diseases, bed-wetting, depression, drug abuse, epilepsy, hypnotism, low birth weight, schizophrenia, sleeping disorders, suicide attempts and certain learning disabilities. However, lefties have nothing to worry because the earlier studies were proved to be idiosyncratic. Recently, science has disproved the theory that left-handed people die earlier than right-handed people. Despite the fact that it seems like a right-handed person designed the world, southpaws still have their personal leverage in their social circle.
(source don't know. Authors name exist.) With due ack.
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| HahooGuru |
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on 24-Nov-02 10:06 PM
What causes left-handedness? Genes, for the most part. Some scientists have suggested that parental influences or stressful birth may cause subtle brain changes that lead to left-handedness, as well but a 1992 study by Murry Schwartz of Dallhouse University in Halifax indicated that this is only a mirror factor. Schwartz says, "There was very little evidence to support the theory that all left-handedness was due to brain damage. The result more readily fit into the explanation that there are both normal and pathological left-handers in population." For a long time, science developed a theory known as the ‘mirror effect’ which states that a right-hander thinks with the left-side of their brain while opposite is true for the left-handed person. However, in the past few years, scientists have discovered that while right-handed people indeed dominated by the left hemisphere of their brain, left-handed people use both sides of their brain more evenly. Some attribute this to language and speech being controlled in the left side of the brain and that just about everyone, no matter what hand they write with, must use the right side of the brain to perform these communicative functions. Left-handers, on the other hand, have increased the use of the right side of their brain. This comes as a celestial bonus for the left-handers.
A really interesting question is whether there is any connection between left-handed people and creative genius. The southpaws are believed to be more intelligent, more balanced and more creative than the righties. Some of the history’s most creative minds have been left-handed. In the category of art, both Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo were left-handed. Musical geniuses Ludwig van Beethoven, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and Paul MacCartney are left-handed. In the field of science and invention one can name Benjamin Franklin, Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. Novelist H. G. Wells, actor Charlie Chaplin, chess genius Bobby Fisher, cricketers Sanath Jayasurya and Brian Lara, former US presidents Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, vice-president Al Gore are left-handers. While there are many famous right-handed people, the left-handed celebrities seem to get more attention. So even though it may be more difficult for a left-handed person to live in a rig ht-handed world, lefties should realize that they can enjoy a good company of bigwigs.
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on 24-Nov-02 10:10 PM
The following is good to note:
However, in the past few years, scientists have discovered that while right-handed people indeed dominated by the left hemisphere of their brain, left-handed people use both sides of their brain more evenly.
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on 25-Nov-02 02:38 PM
being a left handed guitarist, it was always a bummer not being able to play a right handed guitar. still haven't met any left handed guitarists.
Good thing about it, is that nobody else borrows or plays it. ;)
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