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It's called the RIGHT hand for a reason (lemmy.world)

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[-] InfinitiZEr0@programming.dev 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I got slapped by my teacher infront of everyone for pointing and showing with my left hand, that the answer I have written on the answer sheet is correct and I should get the marks. Then he lectured me for ten minutes about not using my left hand ever again in his presence. Flamed my parents that they should have taught me that and are bad at parenting. He finally gave me full marks, but I cried the whole day and got humiliated infront of whole class. This happened in 2000s

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago

Write hand!

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 31 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

You can thank the Romans’ adoption of the Bible for that stigma.

In Latin, sinestra means on the left side. Left handed people were referred to as sinister. After the appearance of Eve on Adam’s left side in accounts of Genesis, the Christian tradition finds instances of the left side being pinned to immorality. As a result, some time during the Latin Classical Era the definition shifted to its current meaning of evil.

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 12 points 4 hours ago

There's also less left-handed people so they're easier to pick on, and people in the past really delighted on being assholes

[-] Wogi@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours ago

They still do. But they used to to.

[-] EABOD25@lemm.ee 47 points 8 hours ago

1950? This happened to me in the 90s

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Where are you from, Alabama 100 years from now?

[-] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 19 points 6 hours ago

Same here but in the 80s. Teacher would slap my hand with a ruler and force me to switch to my right hand. She also regularly told me I was evil and had the devil in me. My mom came to the school after she found out and nearly killed that teacher.

I'm still a lefty.

I may or may not be evil...

[-] thisNotMyName@lemmy.world 3 points 4 hours ago

Started school in 2001, my mother - a lefthanded person herself! - tried the first 4 years of primary school to get me to write with the "correct" hand (unsuccessfully)

[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 23 points 8 hours ago

Christ.

[-] EABOD25@lemm.ee 16 points 7 hours ago

3rd grade teacher, first day of school. Was writing my name on my desk card. Next thing I know, I had yard stick slam down on my wrist. Got hit so hard that my wrist was swollen for days after

[-] MohamedMoney@feddit.org 5 points 4 hours ago

The fuck. Where?

[-] EABOD25@lemm.ee 4 points 2 hours ago

Mississippi

[-] gift_of_gab@lemmy.world 15 points 4 hours ago

Their wrist, they already said.

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[-] PugJesus@lemmy.world 31 points 8 hours ago

Explanation: It used to be fairly normal for teachers in the US, at least, to 'correct' left-handed children by striking their hand or otherwise punishing them for using it for primary-hand tasks. My great-uncle suffered this bizarre form of correction as a child.

[-] formergijoe@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago

My partner suffered this form of correction in the late 80s.

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 hours ago

This happened to me in 2003 in upstate New York

[-] mx_smith@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

My Grandfather also had this experience and came out ambidextrous

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 points 7 hours ago

my dad and grandma both went through this

[-] oyfrog@lemmy.world 10 points 7 hours ago

I grew up in the 90s and went to public school, so I didn't have this experience. What I did experience was using the shittiest scissors in the classroom, and having to share it with 3 other kids because there was exactly one left handed pair.

Also lots of criticism about my handwriting.

[-] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 2 points 3 hours ago

My handwriting is terrible, I'm right handed. I blame it on being an engineer.

Well known fact those destined to be engineers and doctors learn to write badly in school, takes years of training to write this badly.

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 2 points 3 hours ago

Finally an explanation I can relate with.

[-] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 hours ago

Knuckle rapping: for those naughty kids in Catholic school. And also lefties.

[-] calmnchaos@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

Everyone knows the left hand is the sinister one...

[-] rauls4@lemm.ee 4 points 8 hours ago

In Spanish the right and left are called diestra (dexterous) and siniestra (sinister) respectively.

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 8 hours ago

That's Italian, in Spanish it's Derecha and izquierda.

[-] RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

That would be "destra" and "sinistra", actually. "diestra" sounds like something made up by an American LARPing as an Italian

[-] rauls4@lemm.ee 1 points 7 hours ago

https://www.ingles.com/comparar/diestra/siniestra

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 7 hours ago

Never heard a Spanish person use diestra or siniestra on a day to day basis. I assume that's like destra e sinistra in Portuguese (my native language) that are very rare synonyms used when someone wants to sound pretentious.

[-] rauls4@lemm.ee 1 points 7 hours ago

I never said it was common.

[-] MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago

That originates from Latin actually.

[-] rauls4@lemm.ee 9 points 8 hours ago

Well. It’s Spanish. Most of it originated from Latin.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I know them as derecha e izquierda for the directions and I'm bilingual in spanish.

Diestro is right handed but for left handed I hear zurdo more. I don't think I've ever heard someone use siniestro.

[-] nevaseerius@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

Biologist here, it's been proven through rigorous scientific research that left handedness actually does not exist. 23 peer reviewed studies all concluded that children start out favoring their right hand. Some children will subconsciously switch to favoring their left hand as an attempt at getting attention. This is usually caused by a lack of attention and/or neglect occurring at home.