You smile ‘Ha you say, I am not left handed either*’ It is that this point you notice your sword already in your right hand. Drat. He lunges at you again and with a cut a thrust and a spin and twirl and a flash and dash and a plunge and a lunge and a final flick he sends your sword flying from your hand embedding itself in a passing tree, he puts the tip of his sword to your throat.
Do you
* Unless of course you are
actually left handed in which case I apologise for my pre justice in this
adventure against kak handed feaks. Then again the English word "sinister"
comes from the Latin word "sinister,-tra,-trum", which originally meant "left"
but took on meanings of "evil" or "unlucky" by the Classical Latin era.
Alternatively, "sinister" comes from the Latin word sinus meaning "pocket": a
traditional Roman toga had only one pocket, located on the left side for the
convenience of a right-handed wearer.[citation needed] The contemporary Italian
word sinistra has both meanings of sinister and left. The Spanish siniestra has
both, too, although the 'left' meaning is less common and is usually expressed
by 'izquierda,' a Basque word. The German word for left is links, and the
adjective link in German has the meaning of "slyly" or "devious", while linken
means "to betray" or "to cheat" (sb.).
A left-hander was supposed to be not only unlucky, but also awkward and clumsy,
as shown in the French gauche, the German links and linkisch and the Dutch
expression "twee linkerhanden hebben" ("to have two left hands", which means
being clumsy). As these are all very old words, they support theories indicating
that the predominance of right-handedness is an extremely old phenomenon. In
Portuguese, the most common word for left-handed person, canhoto, was once used
to identify the devil, and canhestro, a related word, means "clumsy".
In ancient China, the left has been the "bad" side. The adjective "left" (左
Mandarin: zuǒ) means "improper" or "out of accord." For instance, the phrase
"left path" (左道 Mandarin: zuǒdao) stands for illegal or immoral means. In some
parts of China, some adults can still remember suffering for the "crime" (with
suitable traumatic punishments) of not learning to be right-handed in both
primary and secondary schools, as well as in some "keeping-good-face" families.
In Norwegian, the expression venstrehåndsarbeid (left-hand work) means
"something that is done in a sloppy or unsatisfactory way" and one of the
norwegian words for lefthanded "keivhendt" comes from norwegian words meaning
wronghanded or unstraithanded.
The Hungarian word balfácán means twit. (Bal means left and fácán is for
pheasant.) Other synonims are balfék and balek. However all these are
euphemistic versions of the original vulgar word balfasz, combining "bal" and
the vulgar name of the male genitals fasz.
Therefore it would seem that left handed freaks only have themselves to blame. Themselves and genetics.