[PlateOfShrimp]

Actually, being left-handed is being sinister.

[C210N]

Our Dear leader is left handed

[dfwgator]

Outrageous.

Everybody knows it’s those people with “Outie” belly buttons that are truly evil!

[Celtic Conservative]

Cool, someone else here who has had Latin!

CC

[rarestia]

Sinistral shares the root of “sinister” and literally means “on the left side.” The opposite of sinistral is dextral.

[fini]

My son is left handed and when ever he gets into trouble he blames his left hand. I have to admit it is a pretty good alibi. I can’t tell you how many times he has gotten out of trouble by causing the offended party to be reduced to tears of laughter. One girl friend said they would not get serious until he cut his left hand off. That caught his attention- he never again used that excuse with her again.

[Blueflag]

Indeed. If one studied Latin, one knows.

Sinister = left
Dextro = right

[chajin]

Actually, being left-handed is being sinister.

Also gouche.

[Norm Lenhart]

Yea but redheads steal souls.

[BuffaloJack]

> Actually, being left-handed is being sinister.
Sinister means “left” in Latin.

I started life as a lefty. When I entered school (first grade), they changed me by strapping my left fingers together with rubber bands, but now I’m normal and a righty. I started school in Phoebus, Virginia.

[Bidimus1]

...and of course being right handed is dexter, given our standard of education I doubt many know this.

[CA Conservative]

Actually, being left-handed is being sinister.

Correct, that is actually the origin of the word.