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> I was born left-handed but my parents forced me to use the right hand to write letters (a common practice in Japan at the time). One hassle that Western left
by bangonkeyboard 7y ago
> I was born left-handed but my parents forced me to use the right hand to write letters (a common practice in Japan at the time).
One hassle that Western left-handed writers have to deal with is avoiding smudging their just-written characters as their hands advance to the right. As traditional Japanese is written top-down and right-left, I would have thought lefties were at an advantage in that regard.
- rangibaby 7y agoThe individual characters are designed to be written left to right. It's much easier for a right-handed person to write them correctly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroke_order https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroke_order
- slim 7y agoyour hand is not supposed to touch the paper. practice with a fountain pen
- mcv 7y agoFirst time I'm hearing that. But even if it's true, right-handers don't care, because nobody will ever notice.
- posterboy 7y agoi managed to smudge the ink of the previous line regardless. the weight needs to be center so half the hand needs to balance half above the line you are writing. or you turn the paper. or ... there are so many different handstyles.