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i'm a lefty.
fact: entein, newton, ben franklin and leo davinci were all lefties! lol.
any facts about ur handedness?!

2007-12-17 04:58:40 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference Trivia

12 answers

I originally wrote with my right hand, but I taught myself how to write with my left hand. I write with both depending on which one I last wrote with.Here's some facts about right and left handed people:

1. In Hinduism, the right hand must be used for all auspicious and respectful activity, including eating, giving, receiving, and worshipful offering. The left hand is used in times of inauspiciousness, as a sign of disrespect, and for wiping oneself after using the bathroom. In Islam as well, one is required to use the left hand for tasks such as wiping oneself after using the bathroom and the right hand for eating.

2.In the past, many schools around the world forced left-handed children to write right-handed.

3.On average, right-handed people live 9 years longer than their left-handed counterparts.

4.Research has suggested that left-handed people are more susceptible to a range of problems, including allergies, auto-immune diseases, depression, drug abuse, epilepsy, schizophrenia and sleeping disorders. Left-handers are thought to have poorer spatial skills, and thus to be more vulnerable to car crashes and other serious accidents.

5.The Inuit believed that every left-handed person was a sorcerer. A Japanese man could divorce his wife if he discovered that she was left-handed.

6.In Christianity, frequent references reinforce the positive aspects of "right" and "right hand" (side). In particular, the Bible indicates that Jesus sits at the right hand of God, or indeed is the right hand of God. Thus, faith may guide followers toward right-side preference. Christianity has had far-reaching effects on many societies throughout history, potentially strengthening the spread of right-side preference.

7.In many European languages, including English, the word for "right" (in a directional sense) also means "correct" or "proper". Throughout history, being left-handed was considered as negative - the Latin word sinistra (from which the English word "sinister" was derived, along with various Romance language derivatives) meant "left" as well as "unlucky". There are many negative connotations associated with the phrase "left-handed": clumsy, awkward, unlucky, insincere, sinister, malicious, and so on. The French word gauche means both "left" and "awkward" or "clumsy", whereas the French word droite, "right," is akin to droit, "straight," "law," and "right" as in "human rights." The name "Dexter" derives from the Latin for "right". As these are all very old words, they would tend to support theories indicating that the predominance of right-handedness is an extremely old phenomenon.

8. People who demonstrate awkwardness with both hands are said to be ambilevous or ambisinister.

For more information you can go to wikipedia.com.

I don't believe what hand you're more skilled at using really matters though. You choose who you want to be, how successful you are, and how smart you are.

2007-12-17 06:27:52 · answer #1 · answered by ReaderOfTheClassics 4 · 0 0

I write right handed, but when I play Santa, I write left handed. That includes the tags and the response he leaves to the Christmas Eve letter.

2007-12-17 05:04:59 · answer #2 · answered by simply_me 6 · 1 0

I am a righty when I write. But playing pool, or throwing darts I am a lefty.

2007-12-17 05:08:05 · answer #3 · answered by a_blonde_with_a_brain 2 · 0 0

Right handed - me. That's all I need to know.

2007-12-17 05:06:17 · answer #4 · answered by Dave C 7 · 0 0

i'm left - da vinci was abidexstrous. He could write and draw simultamously.

2007-12-17 06:22:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

I'm a righty

2007-12-17 06:33:35 · answer #6 · answered by rosie recipe 7 · 0 0

i am right handed, but i am left side oriented, meaning i look through telescopes using my left eye, shoot guns through left eye/side of my body.....etc!

2007-12-17 05:07:14 · answer #7 · answered by ifeellikepennies 5 · 0 0

im a righty

2007-12-17 05:05:52 · answer #8 · answered by D 4 · 0 0

i am mostly right but i can do both!
Merry Christmas =]

2007-12-17 07:07:45 · answer #9 · answered by *a.barton(: 3 · 0 0

right none that i know of

2007-12-17 06:22:24 · answer #10 · answered by thanks to our brave troops, 7 · 0 0

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