That amused me because I caught myself (again) just last night watching in amusement and bemusement as a rightie siting next to me wrote; how can they write like that??The pen is moving in the wrong direction!
I seriously doubt that the average rightie realizes that we think how they write is as strange as how they think our writing style is. Or do we? So am I alone in this, or do you find how they write to be just as odd as they think our way of writing is?
I am one of several generations of left-handers in my family, but I’ve never written with the “hook.” Watching a right-hander write is, to me, simply a mirror image and not at all funny-looking.
Someone mentioned a mirror image…I had to show up.
While I am right handed, an amazing number of people watch me write and say, “Are you left handed?” It’s because of the way I hold my pen (apparently like someone who’s left handed). It’s pretty funny, because they then spend several minutes trying to hold their pen like I hold mine, then saying, “How can you write like that?!” Beats me. I just do.
Mirror Image, I do the same thing. My parents were both left-handed, and my mom in particular writes with a hooked hand. I must have learned to write watching them, because I “hook” so badly that I write everything upside down, with my right hand. Needless to say, my penmanship is atrocious.
My algebra teacher in high school lost his left hand in an accident and had to learn to write right handed. he would write on the chalk board by leaning against it with his sholder to steady his arm and then extend his arm straight across the board and write.
It looked weird but it was the only way he could write on it so we could acually read it.
needless to say he never used the right side on the board.
well, I’m a lefty, so I can definitely give truth to the term “Pencil-Pusher” :Bad Pun Smile:
I know a kid at school who holds the paper crooked, and pulls the pen like a righty, but is a lefty… very odd… He has to hook his hand completely around to do it.
Righties are like this: if you know someone needs some scratch paper to take notes, give them a page. Or if they are right handed, give them a sheaf of 30. Ever notice how they only get about four words per line?
Lefties could put entire words in the space between right-handers’ letters!
I don’t know what you mean, AHunter3. But then again, I think that everyone gets about 4 words per line when compared to my writing. The same amount of writing that takes up a full page for an average person… well, I can generally fit it into less than half a page, usually a quarter of a page.
Me, I kinda wish I was left-handed. Actually, I have a slight ability to write with both hands (not flawlessly though, so it’s not true ambidextrousity… or however you’d say it). If I practice, my left handed writing can improve quite a bit. One day!.. :: shakes fist at no one in particular ::
My notes from a 2-hour lecture will fill about 3/4 of a page. I get 16-20 words per line unless I’m writing small on purpose or something.
I think we have a secret cabal in charge of the reverse sides of credit cards or something. I’m one of the few people I know whose normal signature fits easily in the space provided
