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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 09:00:57 MET
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- From: George Welling <welling@FREYA.LET.RUG.NL>
- Subject: Re: Lefthandedness
- In-Reply-To: <9211190038.AA15939@freya.let.rug.nl>; from "Don W." at Nov 18,
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- > Was "Presidential Dissabilities" [sic(k)]
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- > >I am a leftie in all parts of my life ('cept baseball) and most of the leftie
- s
- > I
- > > know, myself included, have trouble with words and tend to inverse letter
- s
- > w
- > > hen we are writting,
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- > >Giuliano "Lefties rule" Valentino WANNAKER@DAL1
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- > When I write left-handed, it's a mirror image of the way I write
- > right-handed. Anybody else notice this phenomenon?
- >
- > Don W. (DonWebb@CSUS.EDU)
- >
- I once played in a band where the piano-player was a leftie, who had been
- forced to write right-handed (which was normal in the Netherlands untill deep
- into the fifties), who could write with both hands at the same time. His
- left-hand writing was an exact mirror image of his right-hand writing. It was
- very funny to see him do it. He was also able to write with both hands on two
- different lines in normal writing, doing two sentences at the same time.
- He became a very good programmer.
- Is there a connection between computer-programming and left-handedness. In our
- department the righties are a very small minority, me being one of them.
- Playing guitar has made my left hand stronger than my right hand, but I still
- cannot write left handed in a way that someone else might be able to read it.
- My twins, two girls of three plus year old, have not made up their minds yet
- about left or right: when they draw, they use both hands, without favouring
- one of them. I wonder when they will make a choice.
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- George M. Welling - dep.Alfa-Informatica HCI - University of Groningen
- phone : +31 50 63 54 74 | fax : +31 50 63 49 00 | welling@let.rug.nl
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