someone pointed out that the way left handed people write looks contrived.
knowing nothing left handedness, writing or anything close to that, i came up with 2 "theories" on-the-fly (that have withstood the cant-find-an-obvious-contradiction-in-10-seconds test of time)
1. teachers in early classes are primarily trained/overfitted to right-handers. so they end up not knowing the optimal smooth strokes for different alphabets for left-handed kids (i recall that there was a time that left-handedness was considered evil ..and teachers forced kids to become right handed .. but i digress)
2. its easier for a right handed person to write left-to-right (less constrained stroke). so our writing style is pretty much designed for the common case. so left-handers have to contrive to write in the direction that is not entirely natural
if anyone knows any better, id like to know. would also like to hear more cant-find-an-obvious-contradiction-in-10-seconds theories as well :-)
Monday, January 25, 2010
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