Left or Right?

Are you left or right handed?
Thanks.

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Yeah I've always thought it weird how french people all seem to have the same handwriting, very flowery and overcooked. And the way you write '1' is just downright confusing.

But I still <3 the French, honest Vee.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-handedness

Negative associations of left-handedness in language

We had to learn to write with a plume (? English) and ink in special notebooks. I loved it, it made me feel really grown up.

We had to learn to write with a plume (? English) and ink in special notebooks.

Fountain pen in English, or cartridge pen if you had rich parents.

Didn't make me feel grown up, it made me feel clumsy and useless. I used to get terrible marks on essays and was berated for writing unreadable nonsense. One day when my pen broke, under the advice of my mother, I wrote out an essay in biro without joined up writing. I got a B, being marked down for not using joined up hand-writing.

Fountain pens were the bane of my life when I was at school, lefties and wet ink just don't go together.

My handwriting is pretty shit (although I can make it presentable if I try really hard), is there a correlation between having bad handwriting and being a leftie?

thread win

But are fountain pens with cartridges? We had to dip our pens into the ink carefully. We had fountain pens the year after.

I was lucky I liked them and writing was never a problem. But I also remember our primary school teachers seemed to be sympathetic to our left-handed cause. A few of them got together and gathered all of us left handed to see how we coped with writing etc...

... and then whipped you until you wrote with the right hand, i.e. the right hand.

i remember my hands being all black with the fountain pen ink...
my god! ages ago

i won a prize for my calligraphy, i still have the rosette.
i can't believe that in the late 70's it was acceptable to make a child use their right hand for writing and drawing.
bastards. it's ruined my life and i'm going to sue for damages.

That does sound pretty backward Mr Smyth, for the late 70s. Was it borstal?

My handwriting is pretty shit (although I can make it presentable if I try really hard), is there a correlation between having bad handwriting and being a leftie?

Yes because when you write you push your arm into your body and the side of the notebook in the way of your arm.

Everything is made for right handed people.

I have always wanted to have nice penmanship. My father thought it was important and made me practice for one page every day (that lasted about 6 months before my whining got the better of him). My mother has fantastic writing - German schools. My father cant' write.. he prints. My writing fluxuates between ridiculous borring and the scrawing print of my father. No continuity one page to the next. Writing FAIL.

my school tried to make me right handed and my father - completly irate that anyone should correct his child other than him went and had words. (My father at the time was 6ft 6, 215lbs and could easily hold an entire side of beef in one outstretched arm, is bald with a big red beard) Needless to say I am still left handed.

i won a prize for my calligraphy, i still have the rosette.
i can't believe that in the late 70's it was acceptable to make a child use their right hand for writing and drawing.
bastards. it's ruined my life and i'm going to sue for damages.

Very backward indeed! My brothers were born mid to late 50s and they never had any problems and they went to some tough schools.

My handwriting closely resembles the wingding font at the best of times, add a pen that drips and runs dry at its own will and you have a shopping list worthy of framing!

i put down left as i am practicing to be better with it

Can you write with your left hand MrSmyth?

My nephew is right handed but writes with his left hand, he did what his mum was doing (my right handed brother did the right thing and married a left handed woman).

That does sound pretty backward Mr Smyth, for the late 70s. Was it borstal?

No. Willsbourough infants school Ashford kent.

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Left:
Draw,
Write,
Wank,
Polo,
Ping pong,

Right:
Throw,
Football,
Tennis,
mouse,
txt,

true. weird.

Can you write with your left hand MrSmyth?

no. as i get older i'm losing what left handedness i had.
i still use a mouse and scissors in either hand and would never know which way to lay the table and would use a knife and fork in whatever way i happened to pick them up.
i shoot and use a fishing rod left handed because they are related to my left master eye. which is my also my photography eye (controlled by the spatial right brain).

i'm not ambidextrous. but right handed by nurture, left handed by nature.

i tried really hard to learn to write left-handed when i broke my elbow. spent money on kids tracing books and all sorts. teapot/chocolate.

also, freakily, my (right) handwriting changed completely after i started being able to write again.

@ VeeVee ... left handed avatar ... cool :-)

it was done on a mac

Oh dang ... Simultaneously write and use a mouse? ... wish I could do that!

Left:
Draw,
Write,
Wank,
Polo,
Ping pong,

Right:
Throw,
Football,
Tennis,
mouse,
txt,

true. weird.