Comments on: left & right: 37/365

By: cynthia

cynthia — Sun, 05 Apr 2015 23:28:12 +0000

In reply to Claire Guyton. I don't have a lot of left-handers, but I love the story of how you do all those left-handed things because of your older siblings--adorable!

By: Claire Guyton

Claire Guyton — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 04:57:30 +0000

Something like 30 years ago I did a school report on handedness, and read that left-handed people mix up right and left more than right-handed people do. If that’s true, and I believed it then but who knows, it might be b/c of what that book suggested, which is that the world in many ways we don’t notice is built for right-handers, which means left-handers are always adapting to unnatural physical space/movement. That interpretation only holds, of course, if it’s true that we all tend to “think” with our dominant hand. Anyway, that book also said that right-handed people with a lot of left-handedness in their families have more trouble mixing up the two directions than do right-handers in families that are exclusively made up of right-handers. The suggestion here was that if you’re sharing intimate space with people who are responding to the world in the opposite way, then you will be affected by that. Again, if this is true, and I doubt all of it, it explains why I, like you, very often hesitate when commanded to go left or right, and must also “touch base” with my right hand to make sure I’ve got it. My sister and brother, both much older, are left-handed, and they taught me the things older siblings teach, all using the left hand. So I tie my shoes left-handed, hold knife and fork as a lefthander, keep my watch on my right wrist, always try to open things with my left hand first, and on and on, despite being very dominantly right-handed (my right hand and arm are substantially stronger than my left). And Pat is left-handed, too, so the pernicious influence of those left-handers continues! Anyway, all to add up to this: If you have a lot of left-handedness in your family growing up, that could (but probably doesn’t) explain this little glitch you have with left/right.

Okay, you’re right about this one, I can’t believe I wrote so much! Damn.

By: helena sorensen

helena sorensen — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 20:28:31 +0000

In reply to The Hopeful Herbalist.

Trust the following will tickle your fancy… 🙂

Etymology
From 18th and 19th century British sailors…
drinking lime juice to ward off scurvy

Adjective
limey (comparative limier, superlative limiest)
1. Resembling limes (the fruit), lime-like.
2. Of, or pertaining to, limes (the fruit).
Full of limey goodness.

Noun
limey (plural limeys)
(US, slang)
An Englishman or other Briton or a person of British descent.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/limey

By: The Hopeful Herbalist

The Hopeful Herbalist — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 19:49:26 +0000

In reply to helena sorensen. A Limey?! A while since I have navigated the high seas! ???

By: helena sorensen

helena sorensen — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 17:19:24 +0000

In reply to The Hopeful Herbalist. Blimey! might yee be a Limey?! ~;)))

By: cynthia

cynthia — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 16:52:33 +0000

In reply to writersideup. I'm better with directions than with my left and right, but not that great : )

By: cynthia

cynthia — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 16:51:24 +0000

In reply to The Hopeful Herbalist. : )

By: cynthia

cynthia — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 16:50:42 +0000

In reply to ninamishkin. : )

By: ninamishkin

ninamishkin — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 16:07:09 +0000

In reply to cynthia. As we used to say a long long time ago: "Same difference." :-)

By: The Hopeful Herbalist

The Hopeful Herbalist — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 07:03:11 +0000

In reply to helena sorensen. Whadayamean? "Wrong"side of the road? LOL!