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doing the recognition roundsHOORAY!!!!So all fellow Lefties, out of your shells now, come on. 
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« Reply #1 on: 01:17:21, 11-08-2007 » |
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lignum crucis arbour scientiae
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Tony Watson
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« Reply #2 on: 12:34:01, 11-08-2007 » |
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So you're a lefty, eruanto?
Is anyone else out there a bit of a mixture, like me? I started writing left-handed but I can write right-handed quite well. It's neater than the left but slower, so I use the left for scribbling notes, etc.
But I find the following are one or the other, but not both:
Left hand: snooker, darts, bowling (cricket and bowls).
Right hand: tennis (and other games with a bat, including batting at cricket), computer mouse, shaving, brushing teeth, combing hair.
Not that I play those games or sports very often (hardly at all, in fact) but that's what I would do if I did. Putting on a jacket it has to be right arm first but for trousers it's left leg first (was the latter too much information?). I don't know whether that's significant or not, as I know that the way people fold their arms has nothing to do with handedness. But doing it the other way round feels clumsly and awkward.
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« Reply #3 on: 12:47:26, 11-08-2007 » |
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I'm mostly left-handed, except when playing cricket (not that I've done that for a very long time); I batted right-handed and bowled left-handed. And I'm ambidextrous with the mouse - at home I'm right-handed since if I move the mouse I usually forget to put it back, which annoys the rest of the family.
Apparently we lefties are supposed to have better spatial awareness and hand-to-eye co-ordination. Think I must have missed out on that one ....
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #4 on: 13:22:36, 11-08-2007 » |
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Why is it that so many cricketers bowl right-handed but bat left-handed ? (pw + tony are both the other way round). It seems to happen in the professional game qiuite often. I can't immediately remember all the examples, but those which immediately spring to mind are Richard Hadlee, Curtly Ambrose, Brian Lara and Graham Thorpe.
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« Reply #5 on: 13:29:23, 11-08-2007 » |
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AH! Put your pride to one side!  That's not me, but I too am a lefty. |
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« Reply #6 on: 13:48:39, 11-08-2007 » |
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Steve Reich is left-handed.
The score of Piano phase is laid out for a left-handed pianist (ie., E,B and D in the left hand and F# + C# in the right). Being right-handed, I play the pattern with the hands reversed. I've noticed that several right-handers don't: some because reversing the hands doesn't feel comfortable, others because that's the way Reich wrote it in the score.
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« Reply #7 on: 14:15:26, 11-08-2007 » |
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Funny, auto, I'm right handed and the 'left handed' pattern feels far more comfortable than the other way around, perhaps partly because the 'downbeats' of the pattern (i.e. the Es) feel like they should be in the left hand...!
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eruanto
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« Reply #8 on: 15:02:49, 11-08-2007 » |
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pure lefty here, Tony! Left-handed and -footed Doing cricket at school was terribly embarrassing, not least because of my terrible inability for it in general, but when practising bowling they made everyone squat down in a long line. I think I was the only one facing the "wrong" way... the other way to everyone else...  Tis funny just how much is right-oriented, of course there are the obvious things like fountain pens and scissors and things, but even things like suits (both jackets and trousers), books, CD players.... grrrr... |
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Tony Watson
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« Reply #9 on: 16:20:20, 11-08-2007 » |
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You really are a leftie, aren't you, eruanto. I've never thought of CDs or books as favouring the right handed (except cheque books). To open a CD case, I hold it in the right hand and then lift the lid with the left. I suppose that's left-handed but a right-handed way would seem less efficient to me. I use scissors in the right hand and I know the problems lefties have there but I've never quite understood either. I use scissors on my finger nails (I've never bitten them - can't stand the habit) which means that to cut the right hand I have to use them in the left and however I try I can never get a good cut.
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« Reply #10 on: 16:37:55, 11-08-2007 » |
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Tis funny just how much is right-oriented, of course there are the obvious things like fountain pens and scissors and things, but even things like suits (both jackets and trousers), books, CD players.... grrrr... Not to mention the southpaw's nemesis - the BlackBerry  I am still known in the office IT department as the man who asked if there was a left-handed model .... |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #11 on: 16:49:58, 11-08-2007 » |
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I too am left-handed. As for cricket, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary I can safely declare that should I take it up I would quickly become the greatest player in the world from either side of the wicket (  !). I do use computer mice and scissors right-handed, but that's about it. |
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« Reply #12 on: 20:57:05, 11-08-2007 » |
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I use scissors on my finger nails (I've never bitten them - can't stand the habit) which means that to cut the right hand I have to use them in the left and however I try I can never get a good cut.
What's wrong with nail-clippers? Easy with either hand!  Edited to add: Have to confess to being right-handed but I open a CD by holding it in my right hand and lifting the lid with my left - like opening a book I suppose. Could never understand the fuss a left-handed child at school made about wanting to hold his violin the opposite way to everyone else. For a start, it's the left hand's fingers which have to do all the work!  |
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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Tony Watson
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« Reply #13 on: 21:20:40, 11-08-2007 » |
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I don't like nail clippers either - too snappy.
Perhaps I should book in somewhere and have a manicure.
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« Reply #14 on: 21:31:50, 11-08-2007 » |
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I'm right-handed but I'm gradually becoming more left-handed as I get older eg I use a mouse left-handed which is useful since I can write at the same time with my right hand; I play bridge left-handed; and use a screwdriver left-handed, unless I need a lot of power when I have to use my right hand. When I was watching a cricket match today I retrieved the ball and threw it to the fielder left-handed which I often find myself doing. In fact I have to think which hand to throw the ball with.
Left-handedness wrt to playing violin, guitar, cricket, golf etc seems a lot less clear - the left hand surely has a much harder job when playing the violin?
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