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Originally Posted by JollyElm
Lefties were 'sinister,' the hand of the devil, so the nuns forced southpaw kids to write with their right hands. They tried that on my left-handed sister in Queens, but she got lucky when my parents switched her to public school where she could write normally and not tempt eternal damnation by signing someone's yearbook with her left hand.  |
Ahhh, I didn't think about that. When I was in early grades in the early 70's the teachers wanted me to write a certain way left handed in order to not smudge the ink as I wrote. I of course refused to and I am an ink smudger to this day.