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Re: "if that makes any difference"

From:Cristina Escalante <cristina@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 1, 2005, 3:01
>-----Original Message----- >From: Constructed Languages List [mailto:CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU] On >Behalf Of Ph. D. >Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 8:50 PM >To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU >Subject: Re: "if that makes any difference" > >Mark J. Reed wrote: >> >> On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 02:56:48PM -0500, Sally Caves wrote: >> > I'm right-handed but left-eyed, so that gives me mixed-brain
dominance
>> >> Interesting. I'm right-eyed but it's not really brain dominance; I
just
>> have really bad vision in my left eye, and it's not fully correctible
to
>> 20/20 - apparently a leftover result from having lazy eye as a child, >> althought the opthamologist says he doesn't see any of the usual >> evidence of such a prior condition - only the uncorrectibility. > > >I wasn't aware that handedness and dominant eye were connected. >I am right-handed, but my left eye has near perfect vision. I noticed >when I was a teenager that my right eye was blurry at distances. >Over the years, it has slowly become more blurry to the point where >now (at age fifty) I have difficulty reading with my right eye alone. >I have never worn glasses. > >--Ph. D.
Neato. I'm a righty and my left eye is great for reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic, but can't see far to save its' life, while my right eye is just the opposite. --Tsemol