Lefties!

Wednesday, 2 February 2005 08:35
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Everyone is born left-handed, and becomes right-handed when they commit their first sin.

(NB I'm a rightie. Does that make me a "northpaw"?)

Date: Wednesday, 2 February 2005 14:16 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ubykhlives.livejournal.com
Yep. To clarify, the Latin word for "left", sinistra, is the root of the English word sinister "of ill omen, ill-boding, evil-seeming". Also, the French word for "left", gauche, in English means "boorish and tactless"; and French mal à droit "bad with the right" has become English maladroit "clumsy, incapable".

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