Re: [lace-chat] Right? Left?
Lynn Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My kindergarten version of revenge on the teachers and my father, who insisted I change hands, was to learn to write upside down and backwards, something I am still quite adept at 45 years on. Hey, me, too! One rainy afternoon, my mom, with me and my two little brothers running out of entertainment, suggested we learn to write upside down. Then backwards. I can still write (or read) backwards or upside down or upside down AND backwards. Many people over the years have told me, Oh, it's easy, just remember that if you hold out your thumb and index finger, the left hand makes an L! However, since in kindergarten, I distinctly remember having trouble deciding which way the bottom of the L pointed, I doubt this would have helped me. :) I did eventually learn that if north was up on a map, west and east spelled WE . . . another Lynn, Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA alwen at i2k dot com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Right? Left?
As someone who was convinced by the use of a wooden stick to become righthanded, I still have trouble deciding which hand to use. I wear my watch on my right hand, not the left, mostly write with my right hand, although I can use my left hand. My kindergarten version of revenge on the teachers and my father, who insisted I change hands, was to learn to write upside down and backwards, something I am still quite adept at 45 years on. I have always been a bit accident prone, which studies have shown is attributable to a forced change. It has its advantages tho, as when I injured my right hand I was able to continue on with work, writing, and hobbies with my left, my nephew refers to it as being handbedextrous. Lynn Scott in Wollongong, where I am finally seeing an end to unpacking, where I am discovering the real disadvantage to being creative is all the stuff that has to be moved around and rearranged. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Right? Left?
Hurrah! Someone else! And Sigmund Freud too! I have to look at my hands to tell which is left and which is right. I have no problems knowing directions, just can't put the names to right and left Sue [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Right? Left?
Well, I know my right from my left. Although I didn't used to, until I became a gliding instructor . It didn't take long to sink in once I had to use it in earnest. You sit behind your pupil in most two-seat training aircraft, so it becomes apparent very quicckly that most people get it wrong, or at least have to pause and think about it. (And you can see the ones who have little signals to themselve as they are reflected in the perspex canopy.) Even many airline pilots seemed to have this difficulty. Linda Walton, in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, U.K., where the Autumn colours are just glowing in the slanting afternoon sunshine. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Right? Left?
I confess, I never properly learned my right from my left. While still in kindergarten, I realized I had a double jointed thumb only on my left hand, and I learned to click that thumb out of joint to tell which hand was which. If you give me directions with left and right in them, and pay close attention to my hands, to this day you might catch the little flick of my left thumb that tells me which is which. (Left is the click thumb, right is the other one.) For years I kept this secret, figuring everybody else just knew right from left. Then the subject came up in my origami email list, and it turns out there are dozens of us, mathematicians, physicists even, who use various devices to remind them right from left. Then one day I found this great quote: Sigmund Freud (you might have heard of him), writing to a friend: I do not know whether it is obvious to other people which is their own or other's right or left. In my case, I had to think which was my right; no organic feeling told me. To make sure which was my right hand I used quickly to make a few writing movements. So I don't feel half so embarrassed about not really knowing right from left any more! Lynn Carpenter in SW Michigan, USA alwen at i2k dot com To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
