I just wanted to say, I am left-handed and don't consider myself sinister.
Of course, most left-handers have a propensity for brilliant thoughts and deeds plus have the inbuilt ability to read text back to front and upside down as though it were the rightway up.
There are very many famous left-handers, Leonardo da Vinci for one and Graham Gooch for another.
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Aha! It's just a simple play on words, Sid, that's all. Sinister means left-handed. It takes it's modern day meaning from a mediaeval belief that left-handedness was a sign of the devil.
I'm not sinistrophobic. I'm actually ambidexterous myself, which means that I play racquet sports left-handed and write right-handed. I'm not convinced about Graham Gooch being sinister, though...... he certainly bats and bowls right-handed. You're not thinking of David Gower, perchance?
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Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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Andy, if that belief was a mediaeval, as you write it, may-be we should call it: medievil.
In latin, sinister just means left, although it can be used for left-handedness. Dexter is right.
my daughter is left handed , that could explain a lot lol
and my son AAARRRHHHH
Guest 696- Registered: 31 Mar 2010
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My Dad too! However, I'm right handed.
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Reminds me of Lurcio drafted into the Roman army:-
Sinister dexter, sinister dexter.....terminus.
BTW I'm right handed but eat left handed.
Terry
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