Lefty here. Bad title - writing English kinda sucks for lefties - on blackboards... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		balgarath on Sept 13, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: English is heavily left-handed Lefty here. Bad title - writing English kinda sucks for lefties - on blackboards/whiteboards I always smudge the letters as a write left to right. Same thing with some pens. And you can't see the letters your just wrote as you move left-to right. Not to mention the English language was around a long time before QWERTY. Truth is, English was heavily left-handed,we'd all be writing right-to-left. More appropriate title would be 'QWERTY is heavily left-handed'

wickeand000 on Sept 13, 2012 | [–]

You can always tell a left-handed person when they say they like a pen because it dries quickly!

sliverstorm on Sept 13, 2012 | [–]

Yup, you hit all the bullets. Many a day in high school, I'd come home with the side of my left hand colored silver from fresh graphite.

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact