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Left-handed children should be taught to write right-to-left in 'mirror writing' and thus escape a lifetime of smearing ink with their hand or contorting their hand into strange shapes. In lessons, the left-handed children would face the back of the class, observing the blackboard/whiteboard in a mirror
on the back wall.
Eventually it would become perfectly normal for everyone to carry around a small hand-held mirror (for left-handers to reader right-handers' writing and vice versa).
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I learned bass guitar at school. Or at least, attempted to. The old German git (he was quite a nice person actually) who tortoise simply could not get it into his skull that if I sat opposite him with my electric (ignoring that it's a six string and I was only using the four thickest strings) it'd be exactly like him seeing an image in the mirror. Just couldn't get it. Incredible. |
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Or we could just cut off the left hands of the children as they begin to show propensities of left-handedness, and nip this whole thing in the bud. |
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Should have been done decades ago. Lefties have one of the most obvious cases for discrimination suits of any group. + |
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Writing should be vertical with a vertical axis of symmetry, boustrophedon from the right. |
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I thought that they would be forced to compose their sentences complete, then start writing with the last letter of the last word. |
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Actually, with tablet devices that do handwriting recognition, this would really work. The lefty could write "backwards" and the computer would flip it around for the sinister impaired to read. Doesn't so much avoid smearing as it allows them to actually see what they are writing instead of the back of their hands.
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Are kids still writing? Can't they just type? |
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I had a friend that could write the same sentence on two pieces of paper, forward with the left hand and backward with the right, without even slowing down. Perhaps the most useless skill ever, but it was neat to watch. |
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yet another way to make lefties look like inconvenient freaks. sorry, I cant read this lefty stuff, I forgot my mirror, ha ha hah. You aren't hired. |
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I think that your intentions are good but that your solution
would cause a really big divide in the class and would be
likely to cause problems of isolation to lefties considering
they generally only comprise of about 10% of the
population. That said, i do think lefties should be helped
more. |
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..One of my hands is severely lacking in dexterity so i am
sensitive to people with such problems... I wonder what it
would have been like to have been forced to do some sort
of exercises to catch up. |
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I've heard, don't know if it's true or not, that the percentage
of lefties is coming up since people are no longer trained not
to be. |
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CaptainClapper, - I'm pretty sure everyone can do that. I certainly can, and I've never practised at all - it just comes naturally. |
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The two problems with writing left-handed are smudging ink (as already noted) and not being able to see what you've just written. |
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Here's my solution: a hand trolley with a camera on the underside and a display screen 'roof'. The user places their hand in the space between the trolley base and roof; the screen makes the user's hand appear transparent. |
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Then you're fixing the wrong thing. The thing that needs fixing is the direction. Instead of cramming letters increasingly into what feels like the source of where all the words come from, it'd be far more comfortable to start at the beginning of a line, and progress in a forward direction (ie, not actually forward as in away from you, but "forward" as in going to the left - like a timeline on a graph goes sideways instead of away from you, but in this case, it goes the correct way) to the end of the line. Come to think of it, it'd be tremendously useful to correct graphs and charts such as gantt charts, so that the progression of time is intuitive for once, instead of seeming like we're being dragged backwards into something labelled "the future" which gives all indication that it's back to the past instead, only a past we've never seen before. |
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//The two problems with writing left-handed are smudging ink (as already noted) and not being able to see what you've just written.// [+] I get it now! All my life I could never understand why left-handed people had to turn all the way around in their desk-chair and their handwriting always looked funny and sometimes slanted the other way. |
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Easy solution for me [as a right-handed person who
writes left-handed], was to just turn the page 90°
anti-clockwise and write from bottom to top. No
smudges, can see what I am writing and no
contortions of the wrist. |
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I like the idea of writing on the page
bottom-to-top. This would force you to start essays or stories at the end and work your way towards the beginning. Teaching this at school would create a generation of left-handed schoolchildren free from the constraints of structuring their thoughts in a traditional linear and sequential way. |
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Why not write on a constantly rotating cylinder ? Then it would just be a matter of making contact on the left or the right side of it. If the cylinder gradually feeds forward, there will be no line breaks at all ! |
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//I had a friend that could write the same sentence on two pieces of paper, forward with the left hand and backward with the right, without even slowing down. Perhaps the most useless skill ever, but it was neat to watch. |
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I wonder which side of the brain is being used there. |
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My father tells of being beaten and struck upon the fingers with a lawyer cane, for writing with his left hand, at school. |
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He writes almost identically with either hand, to this day, in neat copperplate. He's just turned 70. |
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// I wonder which side of the brain is being used there // |
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That's supposed to be a myth but i can't remember the details. There is a crossover but it isn't that simple. |
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Popular myth has it that the left hemisphere of the brain is responsible for language skills ( which is true for a very high percentage of right-handed people and a relatively lower percentage, about 65%, of left-handers, as I recall). |
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Calculation, literal knowledge and language are mostly the product of left hemisphere activity, whereas approximation, comparison and estimation are the product, mostly, of the right hemisphere. |
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Practically all other claims as to the effect of one hemisphere or the other are pop psychology nonsense. That includes most of the application of handedness theory in neurolinguistic programing, which is arguably junk science. |
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