And somewhat lacking in dexterity ... I've heard them all before - far too many times.
And that's just the obvious stuff. Even after discounting such engrained things as right-handed bias in cutlery, scissors, etc. Even something as simple as the high-end roller paper cutter in Kinkos is set up with a blade guard so that a right-handed user has no problems, but I have to push the cutter 'the wrong way" I do get some small amount of revenge, though. My wife is also left handed, so our house (and, in particular, the kitchen) is organised so that things are to be found in a convenient position for us (such as, for example, in a drawer that can be opened with the left hand for tools and accesories that will be wanted while empty-handed, but in one convenient for the right hand for tools that will most often be wanted when one hand will be busy). One other interesting point I noticed was when I was at university. The number of lefties on the advanced mathematics courses was much higher than would be expected from a random sampling. Apparently there is a similar spike on the fine arts side in music, although you wouldn't know that from me. On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 04:20:38PM -0400, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > When did you realize they were also gauche? > > Dan > Dan Matyola > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola > > > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 4:17 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: "Ken Waller" > >> > >> Also, the desks we had in my schools all were build for right handed > >> writers - the tops were somewhat like the numeral 9 - you had to slide in > >> to > >> sit from the L H side and could rest your right hand on the leg of the > >> nine - sure wasn't conducive to L H writing. > > > > I remember those. Where I went to school they actually had a limited number > > of "Left-hand" desks available - just like the regular desks but shaped like > > a backwards number 9 - to accommodate left handed students. > > > > Seems like most of them were concentrated in the elementary school. I guess > > they figured that by the time they reached Junior High School the lefties > > had learned to cope with living in a right hand world. > > > > Didn't realize lefties were sinister until I got to the 9th grade. > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
