Write hand!
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You can thank the Romans’ adoption of the Bible for that stigma.
In Latin, sinestra means on the left side. Left handed people were referred to as sinister. After the appearance of Eve on Adam’s left side in accounts of Genesis, the Christian tradition finds instances of the left side being pinned to immorality. As a result, some time during the Latin Classical Era the definition shifted to its current meaning of evil.
There's also less left-handed people so they're easier to pick on, and people in the past really delighted on being assholes
1950? This happened to me in the 90s
Started school in 2001, my mother - a lefthanded person herself! - tried the first 4 years of primary school to get me to write with the "correct" hand (unsuccessfully)
Same here but in the 80s. Teacher would slap my hand with a ruler and force me to switch to my right hand. She also regularly told me I was evil and had the devil in me. My mom came to the school after she found out and nearly killed that teacher.
I'm still a lefty.
I may or may not be evil...
Christ.
3rd grade teacher, first day of school. Was writing my name on my desk card. Next thing I know, I had yard stick slam down on my wrist. Got hit so hard that my wrist was swollen for days after
The fuck. Where?
Their wrist, they already said.
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I was gonna say '80s, but you beat me by 10 years. I used to be left-handed, and my physio spotted it immediately: something about early muscle formation.
But as it was a conservative region of the country, I guess I shouldn't be surprised at the 'classic' teaching style.
I'm still left handed. I don't break lol
Explanation: It used to be fairly normal for teachers in the US, at least, to 'correct' left-handed children by striking their hand or otherwise punishing them for using it for primary-hand tasks. My great-uncle suffered this bizarre form of correction as a child.
This was a thing I'm Europe as well in the 50's. My mom regularly got a slapping with a ruler or got kicked into the coal shed for writing left handedly
My Grandfather also had this experience and came out ambidextrous
My partner suffered this form of correction in the late 80s.
This happened to me in 2003 in upstate New York
my dad and grandma both went through this
I grew up in the 90s and went to public school, so I didn't have this experience. What I did experience was using the shittiest scissors in the classroom, and having to share it with 3 other kids because there was exactly one left handed pair.
Also lots of criticism about my handwriting.
My handwriting is terrible, I'm right handed. I blame it on being an engineer.
Well known fact those destined to be engineers and doctors learn to write badly in school, takes years of training to write this badly.
Finally an explanation I can relate with.
Knuckle rapping: for those naughty kids in Catholic school. And also lefties.
My 3rd grade teacher did that shit and is one of several reasons I went into homeschooling between 4th and 8th grade. Wasn't even a Catholic school; it was public.
Everyone knows the left hand is the sinister one...
In Spanish the right and left are called diestra (dexterous) and siniestra (sinister) respectively.
That originates from Latin actually.
Well. It’s Spanish. Most of it originated from Latin.
That's Italian, in Spanish it's Derecha and izquierda.
That would be "destra" and "sinistra", actually. "diestra" sounds like something made up by an American LARPing as an Italian
Never heard a Spanish person use diestra or siniestra on a day to day basis. I assume that's like destra e sinistra in Portuguese (my native language) that are very rare synonyms used when someone wants to sound pretentious.
I never said it was common.
I know them as derecha e izquierda for the directions and I'm bilingual in spanish.
Diestro is right handed but for left handed I hear zurdo more. I don't think I've ever heard someone use siniestro.
