Re: First report on Conm

Quoting John Cowan <cowan@...>:

> Nik Taylor scripsit:
> > Andreas Johansson wrote:
> > > This right-handed European would consider using the fork with your
> right hand
> > > to be a left-handed thing to do, _even_ if you ate with only a
> fork.
> >
> > Why left-handed?  Why would you use your weaker hand to eat?
>
> He's making a bilingual pun, which I had alluded to but not actually
> made.
> I said it was gauche to eat like a European in America (unless you are
> one),
> and in French *gauche* is "left".
Eh, actually I'm not making a such pun, and I didn't know what "gauche" meant. I
really do feel eating with only a fork held in the right hand to be a behaviour
expected of left-handed rather than right-handed people.

                                                       Andreas