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In French, gauche means both ' left ' and ' awkward ' or ' clumsy ', while droit(e) (cognate to English direct and related to adroit) means both ' right ' and ' straight ', as well as ' law ' and the legal sense of ' right '. The name Dexter derives from the Latin for ' right ', as does the word dexterity meaning manual skill. As these are all ...
In heraldry, right and left is always used in the meaning of proper right and proper left, as for the imaginary bearer of a coat of arms; to avoid confusion, the Latin terms dexter and sinister are often used. [5] The alternative is to use language that makes it clear that the viewer's perspective is being used.
The English word "left" comes from the Anglo-Saxon word lyft which means "weak" or "useless". Similarly, the French word for left, gauche, is also used to mean "awkward" or "tactless", and sinistra, the Latin word from which the English word "sinister" was derived, means "left". Similarly, in many cultures the word for "right" also means "correct".
Movement is sinistral (left-handed) if the block on the other side of the fault moves to the left, or if straddling the fault the left side moves toward the observer. Movement is dextral (right-handed) if the block on the other side of the fault moves to the right, or if straddling the fault the right side moves toward the observer. [4]
In Hungarian, the word for right is jobb, which also means 'better'. The word for left is bal, which also means 'bad'. In Estonian, the word pahem means both 'left' and 'worse' and parem means both 'right' and 'better'. In Turkish, the word for 'right' is sağ, which means 'alive'. The word for left is sol, which means 'discolor, die, ill'.
The left’s push to use bad words makes me think of how wonderful word wonk Susie Dent might describe it. She calls herself, "That woman in Dictionary Corner" and regularly posts obscure terms ...
This axis is less significant in the United States (where views of the role of religion tend to be subsumed into the general left–right axis) than in Europe (where clericalism versus anti-clericalism is much less correlated with the left–right spectrum). Urban vs. rural: this axis is significant today in the politics of Europe, Australia ...
Ambidexterity is the ability to use both the right and left hand equally well. [1] [2] When referring to objects, the term indicates that the object is equally suitable for right-handed and left-handed people. When referring to humans, it indicates that a person has no marked preference for the use of the right or left hand.