Ah Eric,
You should *never* make fun of yourself!
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 22:28:18 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric S. Emerson)
wrote:
> I really wasn't joking or poking fun at dyslexia. I am
> constantly reversing letter and number order. I also have to think
> really hard which is my right or left hand, or which is port or
> starboard. It's not just a typo thing but it shows up there also.
If you feel you truly deserve to be teased, let me know ... I can
line up half a thousand people who will love to tease anybody about
anything! <G>
As for right & left, I think that "requirement to differentiate" is
an artificial one put on us by society. It's like the French word for
"right" [dextre ??] is taken into English as dexterous -- not meaning
"right handed" but "doing things right"; worse still is the term
"sinister" meaning nasty and evil, which is from the French word for
"left" ... As for port and starboard, welcome to the club! <G> I still
have to use my little "tricks" to remember which is which. You can go
back to the original terms of starboard & larboard, and the L word is to
the Left of the boat/ship facing toward the bow. Or you can use Port
and Starboard and the one with 4 letters is Left -- which also has 4
letters. Reversing letters typing is no biggie; with reading it can
often be because you don't "read" the way people are expected to ... you
scan in larger chunks of info at one time and amass the meaning through
sampling and context rather than r e a d i n g o n e w o r d o r
l e t t e r at a time. It probably wouldn't be any problem for you at
all, if other people didn't comment on it and think it was somehow
important. If you were the only one, you wouldn't hear the old joke
about "The *OTHER* LEFT, stupid!"
As for which is right or left hand, do you know which hand to extend to
shake someone's hand? What about which hand you prefer to hold your
fork in? Do you put your gloves on straight, and can you salute without
thinking about which hand is which? That's what is necessary, not know
the positional designation of the hand. :> Of course, if you happen to
be eating with Moslems, please remember to use your right hand only for
eating ... tie a string on your finger if that is the only way you can
remember. As for flippin' off people, you know it's always the hand
they can best see, the one that doesn't block *your* view of a hasty
escape route if they get pixxed off at you. };>
Now, get back to play and stop worrying about which hand is what.
l.d.
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