Re: Pronouns & sexual
| From: | Sai Emrys <saizai@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 26, 2009, 7:44 |
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On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Paul Kershaw <ptkershaw@...> wrote:
> * Handedness is not as silly as it sounds: We have several words for "right"
> that have come to mean something positive (dexterity, right, adroit), and
> several words for "left" that have a negative meaning (sinister, gauche). For
> much of European history, left-handedness was seen as evil, and children were
> encouraged or even forced to do things right-handed.
Middle Eastern cultures also have this taboo, for scatological reasons.
- Sai
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