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#109893 08/15/03 06:55 AM
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right


#109894 08/18/03 02:55 PM
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Left write, right mouse...

other tasks largely equidysfunctional


#109895 08/18/03 04:47 PM
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More right than left but I could switch if I needed to. I did learn to use chopsticks with my left.
sjmaxq - is queer da, I like it. da reich, ja is the only pun I could come up with but it's too many languages.


#109896 08/18/03 08:37 PM
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>sjmaxq - is queer da, I like it

Grassias. I used it because I'm curious how the Iberians ended up with such a different word for their better half. French and Italian have continued the sinister theme of the Roman imperialist agressors, where did Spanish come up with izquierda?


#109897 08/18/03 10:35 PM
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where did Spanish come up with izquierda?

According to this site
http://www.basque-red.net/eng/euskaeng/ostrowsk.htm
it's from Basque:

Basque ezker „left (part), left hand“ explains Spanish izquierdo „left“ and izquierda „left hand, (political) left“ (see also esquerre in Catalan and Gascon)



#109898 08/19/03 12:36 AM
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¡Allí está!


#109899 08/21/03 11:47 AM
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I'm mostly right, but can do most things fairly well, if rather slowly, with my left when necessary.



#109900 08/21/03 01:17 PM
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I'm further to the right than Genghiz Khan ...


#109901 08/21/03 01:25 PM
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How far to the right *was G. Khan?


#109902 08/21/03 01:29 PM
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Even further than that notoriously right-wing nationalist, Josef Marionovich Djugashvilli.

But are we writing about the right rite?


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