Re: Ambi(?)dextrosity

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Andreas Johansson wrote:

> Hm, you ended up pretty much like my youngest sister, then. She rather
> aggressively considers herself to be a leftie, but while she indeed does
> writing and similar precision stuff with the left hand, she tends to use the
> right for tasks requiring physical strength - cutting wood with an axe, say -
> and is indeed stronger in the right arm.
Sounds something like me. My right-handed handwriting is bad enough (nah,
I can write well, I just haven't had reason to. If I'm writing fast trying
to get down almost everything someone's said, it's *going* to be messy),
whereas I can't for the life of me control an axe righthandedly (it seems
so very unnatural and I'd be damned if I could work out why someone would
try).

> In addition, she eats righthandedly, but as people may recall, it's
> arguable that given the eating and fork/knife usage habits back home,
> eating righthandedly actually makes more sense for lefties and
> vice-versa.
Except when you're used to it, when eating lefthandedly (w/both knife
and fork) would confuse me too much and I wouldn't be able to each :(

> But I wonder if "ambidextrous" is really the word for this - isn't it supposed
> to refer to people who can use either hand for anything, rather than for people
> who use one hand for some stuff and the other for other?
If you can find the right word, I'd like to know, because I'm somewhere
between it and ambidextrous and righthanded.

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Tristan                  <kesuari@...>

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