Would life be easier for us left-handed people if Arabic were our native language?

[raccoon]

Don't you write it from right to left?

[Gormy Cuss]

1. The one place where I excelled in Hebrew studies was writing.

Easy as pie for a leftie.

[billyoc]

2. You have a choice:

Arabic, Azeri/Azerbaijani1, Bakhtiari, Balochi, Farsi/Persian, Gilaki, Javanese3, Kashmiri, Kazakh3, Kurdish (Sorani), Malay3, Malayalam3, Pashto, Punjabi, Qashqai, Sindhi, Somali2, Sulu, Takestani, Turkmen, Uighur, Western Cham Hebrew, Ladino/Judezmo2, Yiddish Mandekan Assyrian, Modern Aramaic Koine, Syriac Dhivehi/Maldivian Tamashek Urdu.


http://www.i18nguy.com/temp/rtl.html

[raccoon]

3. Thanks! nt

[Critters2]

4. This is why I hated Hebrew. It made my right-handed brain HURT!!! nt

[JCMach1]

5. my daughter is a lefty and doesn't help her much-- Arabic is TOUGH!

[Maine-ah]

6. just turn your paper sideways. Then you write from top to bottom.

works for me anyway, and I don't get ink all up and down my arm. :hi:

[Arnold Judas Rimmer]

7. Not when it comes to shaking hands

They take that as an insult over there, because it's considered the "ass wiping" hand.