Re: Left & Right handedness

From: eid_at_maddye.demon.co.uk
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 12:25:05 +0100

That was fairly common in UK schools until the 60's; left-handed children were taught to be right-handed. This happened to my mother in the 30's at her convent; but both myself and my sister are left-handed.

In Glorantha, I would see the Dara Happans beating left-handedness out of their children because an off-handed person in a phalanx is going to disrupt everything. I would think that the same would happen elsewhere there are highly-organised military formations in common use. However, I would think that the Lunars would tolerate left-handedness and probably have centuries composed to either left- or right-handers.

Where there are no formal fighting formations, I would think that left-handedness is tolerated - the Orlanthi spring to mind, although a left-handed person would probably be put on the end of a shield wall, not the middle...

TTFN Maddy

> From: "Petersen, Soren" <soren.petersen_at_sap.com>
> Subject: Left- and righthandedness
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> The question about dragonewts remind me of something I've been wondering
> about. If all 'newts are left-handed - and being left-handed is a sign
> of draconic influences - then are all 'normal' humans in Glorantha
> right-handed?
>
> What happens if you're born left-handed? I recently heard a
> radio-program here in Ireland where the presenter said that she was born
> left-handed, "but the Nuns beat that out of me" and that she is now more
> or less right-handed!
>
> Cheers,
> Soren

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