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Is left-handed in a left-to-right language objectively better than being right-handed?

Posted on 12/20/21 at 1:15 pm
Posted by UndercoverBryologist
Member since Nov 2020
8077 posts
Posted on 12/20/21 at 1:15 pm
English is written left-to-right. Is it not better to push the pen/pencil across the page rather than to drag it across the page, a la right-handly?

(Vise versa for right-to-left scripted languages like Arabic and Hebrew.)
Posted by Splackavellie
Bayou
Member since Oct 2017
12132 posts
Posted on 12/20/21 at 1:16 pm to
I'm not sure, I've only ever been right handed.
Posted by Spasweezy
Unfortunately, Louisiana
Member since Jan 2014
7195 posts
Posted on 12/20/21 at 1:16 pm to
I don’t know. I know I always get ink on my hand when writing though.
Posted by deeprig9
Unincorporated Ozora
Member since Sep 2012
73484 posts
Posted on 12/20/21 at 1:16 pm to
No.
Posted by Fun Bunch
New Orleans
Member since May 2008
128131 posts
Posted on 12/20/21 at 1:16 pm to
I'm left handed, but reading right to left would break my brain

writing for lefties is a pain in the arse. You get ink all over the side of your hand.
This post was edited on 12/20/21 at 1:17 pm
Posted by jchamil
Member since Nov 2009
18924 posts
Posted on 12/20/21 at 1:16 pm to
Have you never seen someone who is left handed write before? It's easier to write left to write with your right hand
Posted by upgrade
Member since Jul 2011
14652 posts
Posted on 12/20/21 at 1:17 pm to
Left handed people smear ink on their hands.
Posted by BRbornandraised
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Jun 2013
584 posts
Posted on 12/20/21 at 1:17 pm to



NO
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
Member since Jan 2019
28468 posts
Posted on 12/20/21 at 1:17 pm to
quote:

English is written left-to-right. Is it not better to push the pen/pencil across the page rather than to drag it across the page, a la right-handly?


Left-handed people push their hands through undry ink. Righties don't.
Posted by SammyTiger
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Feb 2009
78350 posts
Posted on 12/20/21 at 1:18 pm to
I mean Push something with a point call dragging it and you tell
Me

Also go write with a. Pencil with your left hand.
Posted by Cool Hand Luke
Member since Oct 2008
2012 posts
Posted on 12/20/21 at 1:32 pm to
Also the rings in binders get in the way.
Posted by hob
Member since Dec 2017
2347 posts
Posted on 12/20/21 at 1:33 pm to
I always hated spiral bound notebooks. The wire is a pain in the hand.
Posted by Klark Kent
Houston via BR
Member since Jan 2008
73359 posts
Posted on 12/20/21 at 1:35 pm to
as a lefty, nothing about writing is easier as a lefty. constant pen/pencil smudges on your hand or erasing what you or someone else wrote.
This post was edited on 12/20/21 at 1:37 pm
Posted by Cowboyfan89
Member since Sep 2015
12969 posts
Posted on 12/20/21 at 1:36 pm to
quote:

writing for lefties is a pain in the arse. You get ink all over the side of your hand.


Use better pens, and you don't have this problem.
Posted by Klark Kent
Houston via BR
Member since Jan 2008
73359 posts
Posted on 12/20/21 at 1:37 pm to
quote:

Use better pens, and you don't have this problem.


yeah, that doesn’t matter. especially for lefty children.
Posted by RaisingCanesOnly
Member since Jan 2020
48 posts
Posted on 12/20/21 at 1:39 pm to
Natural selection has selected for right handed people. Left handers will hopefully be extinct in a few years nbd
Posted by LSUlefty
Youngsville, LA
Member since Dec 2007
28331 posts
Posted on 12/20/21 at 1:39 pm to
quote:

I know I always get ink on my hand when writing though.
Posted by Cymry Teigr
Member since Sep 2012
2138 posts
Posted on 12/20/21 at 1:40 pm to
quote:

as a lefty, nothing about writing is easier as a lefty. constant pen/pencil smudges on your hand or erasing what you or someone else wrote.


If only all other lefties had done what I apparently did as a kid: wrote from right to left in mirror script.
Posted by the4thgen
Dallas, tx
Member since Sep 2010
1849 posts
Posted on 12/20/21 at 1:42 pm to
I am left handed. From a writing for spective its terrible because yes, you push the pen across the page which means you are pushing your hand behind the pen through the fresh ink/pencil lead and it smudges everything you write. Forget about writing on white boards. The fact that my job now requires scarcely any manual writing/ipads don't smudge is a godsend.
Posted by Scoob
Near Exxon
Member since Jun 2009
23022 posts
Posted on 12/20/21 at 1:43 pm to
quote:

quote:

writing for lefties is a pain in the arse. You get ink all over the side of your hand.


Use better pens, and you don't have this problem.

no, that doesn't work. I'm surprised I don't have a permanent discoloration on the side of my pinkie knuckle by now.

I can't fathom moving my hand in the opposite direction (the way righties do).
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