alt Hacker NewsFirstly, in many cultures, people were forced to write with the right time up till the 1970s.p (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias_against_left-handed_peopl...)
Also, when left-handed writing became accepted, there were special left handed pens (with a broader tip that you can push forward without it ‘biting’ into the paper)
Finally, how do you know nobody did that, and got harassed for writing incorrectly?
Left-handedness is somewhat associated with mirror writing (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2117809/:
“Particularly when produced spontaneously, mirror writing is a highly heterogeneous phenomenon: the mirroring may range from as small an item as a single reversed letter, through numerous reversed letters but not words, to thousands of pages of mirrored script; the place in the word in which a mirror letter occurs is variable, and numerals may or may not be reversed too”
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> Also, when left-handed writing became accepted, there were special left handed pens
its still a very unnatural action to do when writing, compared to a backslash
> Finally, how do you know nobody did that, and got harassed for writing incorrectly?
The parent asserts that it was invented for computer use, not beforehand. If a left handed person does it, its been invented beforehand
My father was a southpaw, but he wrote with his right hand, because when he was in primary school, before WWII, he got his hand beaten many times, to encourage him to write only with the right hand.
Except for writing, for everything else requiring skill he used his left hand.