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You got your write mirror image to righties only in the other direction lefties and your hook your arm around and write from above lefties and apparently the right/left brain handling of language is different in the two groups.
I have heard that - although some left-handed guitarists just learned to play/approach the instrument by *flipping a 'right-hand strung' instrument over (making the lower notes nearer to the floor) some prefer the guitar to be 'left-hand strung', as a mirror image.
Parbably the same *issues.
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some left-handed guitarists just learned to play/approach the instrument by *flipping a 'right-hand strung' instrument over (making the lower notes nearer to the floor) some prefer the guitar to be 'left-hand strung', as a mirror image.
Be interesting to see if it correlates with writing style.
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Oh, I always thought some lefties wrote that way so that they wouldn't smudge up their pages when writing.
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so that they wouldn't smudge up their pages
That would seem the obvious reason, but does it explain why the others don't write that way? And, if there is a correlation between style of writing and the way that language is handled in the different halves of the brain, would it be explained by (or would it explain) different attitudes towards paper smudging?
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That would seem the obvious reason...
Not so obvious, specifically if the end of the pen is out in front of the hand (as I personally do) where it wouldn't matter which side you write from... even in a left-to-right written language 'such as' English.
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I can't visualize why that would be better Musick. Does the meat of the palm not smudge along the written words anyway when writen by a lefty?
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bel, I smudge all over the place, which is why I learned early on to rotate the paper 90º counterclockwise and write from bottom to top. This keeps my hand in a more natural position: otherwise I'd have to use Golden Boy's spider technique or just arch my hand way up. It always elicits comments at check-out counters and other public places where I have to sign something, but it works for me. 
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Does the meat of the palm not smudge along the written words anyway when writen by a lefty?
Not when the lower 1/4 of the pen is in front of the whole hand as is my practice as a righty.
Do you expect the pen, as it is held in the hand, to be facing either left-to-right sideways away from the written text (or versa-vis with a lefty) or slightly toward the *penperson... as it seems with your description of a lefty? My *penmanship always holds the lower part of the pen furthest away from the body, as to not have an effect even if I was scripting in Hebrew.
I may have learned this *clean practice from writing music scores using a #1 pencil.
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Which makes me wonder about languages written the other way, such as Arabic. Are right-handed people at a disadvantage because they are in danger of smudging the ink?
I;ve never seen anyone write in Arabic, but the printed stuff I've seen makes me think that you need a calligraphic pen or a brush such as the Japanese and Chinese use to write the broad and tapered strokes. Or is it possible to write that stuff with just a pencil or "single-thickness" pen?
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Or is it possible to write that stuff with just a pencil or "single-thickness" pen?
I haven't seen anybody write Arabic, but have seen friends writing in Farsi and Urdu which use the Arabic script. It seem to me that held their hand elevated and did not drag it along the paper. (Not sure if they could do so for a longish period.) They used standard pens and pencils.
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