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| 1e4e6 Octoglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4288 days ago 1013 posts - 1588 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Norwegian, Dutch, Swedish, Italian Studies: German, Danish, Russian, Catalan | Message 17 of 22 29 October 2013 at 10:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
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That is not so accurate--I am right-handed, but I eat with my left hand, including spoon
for soup. I also used to bat in cricket left-handed and bowl left-arm orthodox, despite being right-handed (although I suppose that does not matter since I never play sports anymore). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| cacue23 Triglot Groupie Canada Joined 4297 days ago 89 posts - 122 votes Speaks: Shanghainese, Mandarin*, English Studies: Cantonese | Message 18 of 22 30 October 2013 at 6:34am | IP Logged | |||||
I guess generally speaking the hand you use to eat is your "major" hand. But of course there are other varieties. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6907 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 19 of 22 30 October 2013 at 7:45am | IP Logged | |||||
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In Sweden it's common to use the fork with the left hand (and correspondingly, you're supposed to use the knife with the right hand). Doing anything else is regarded odd. I don't know why. The majority are right-handed, so why it's "wrong" to prefer the major hand for "precision work" is beyond my comprehension.
On the other hand (!), I'm semi-ambidextrous and can do pretty much anything with either (though not simultaneously). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5007 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 20 of 22 30 October 2013 at 8:55am | IP Logged | |||||
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Well, many people have their exceptions, when their "minor" hand takes the main part.
And there are more such things, even though they get much less attention. During dance lessons, I found something my instructor had said to be very true. Some people, no matter which hand they prefer, have easier time learning to spin to the right and others to the left. And I found a few more such curiosities. And you can surely relearn something with your other hand, even though being forced to it by teachers must be a horrible experience. I had to learn a few things that way due to health issues concerning my wrists (when it comes to some daily activities, I often need to switch hands in the middle, unless I can leave the work to someone else). I found I am able to learn to do a lot of things with my left hand (peel the potatoes is just one of the exemples). But it takes some training, it takes me longer than with my right hand and sometimes the result is not as good as with the right hand (I can make a few notes with my left hand but the writing is ugly and it takes longer. I once wrote an essay at school like that when my right hand was in bandages. Well, I should have chosen the path most choose: they refuse the writen assignment due to their injury.) Really, how could anyone force children to this? A great thing is, that being left-handed is often seen as cool nowadays. Sure, the specific tools (like scissors or pens) are a bit more expensive than the "normal" ones but it is no tragedy any longer. And every now and than, there is a new article in the media speaking of the left-handed right-hemisphered people as the more creative, artistic etc. ones. It's a great thing, in my opinion. (but of course, when a child has the same preference for both hands, the parents usually choose the right hand as many tools are still mostly meant for the majority). Speaking in a foreign language in such a moment, that is a great sign when it comes to your languages :-) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| pesahson Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5726 days ago 448 posts - 840 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: French, Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 21 of 22 30 October 2013 at 11:44am | IP Logged | |||||
Isn't it common across Europe? When using fork and knife, fork is in your left and knife in your right hand, as opposed to the USA where I've heard it's the opposite. But when using only the fork or spoon I use my right hand. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| cacue23 Triglot Groupie Canada Joined 4297 days ago 89 posts - 122 votes Speaks: Shanghainese, Mandarin*, English Studies: Cantonese | Message 22 of 22 31 October 2013 at 8:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
When I talk about "the hand you use to eat", I mean the hand that holds the chopsticks. Being a right-handed person I'm used to holding fork in my left hand and knife in my right hand. This, I heard, should be the typical right-handed way of doing things. By the way, I really wished I was ambidextrous, so that when my elimentary school teacher penalized me with copying long texts in the textbook and my right hand got so sore that it couldn't even move, I could just switch hands. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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