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#87382 11/20/02 05:14 PM
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I must have typo'd, although I don't know how since I just inserted an 'e' to google dexterocentric!?


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Well damn. I wonder which of us used the word first. In this vein, I suggest another word I invented for my daughter's benefit: ambisinister. This word describes anyone who is primarily left-handed but who can use his right hand almost as well.


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#87385 11/20/02 05:27 PM
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Kinda like the individual, yet cosmically concurrent, discovery of fire, huh.


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I guess it's not nice to make chopped liver of Anu:

http://wordsmith.org/awad/archives/0701

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chopped liver of Anu

Course birdfeed's definition is kinda at odds with Anu's.


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>at odds

just so
-joe pâté


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Course birdfeed's definition is kinda at odds with Anu's.

Yeah, I meant it as merely a description with no connotations. I was trying to fly in the face of, well, dextrochauvinist tradition, as expressed by the connotations of words like maladroit, gauche, sinister, etc.

Honest, Officer, I never seen the word before.


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>I was trying to fly in the face of, well, dextrochauvinist tradition

A warm welcome from the top of the world, birdfeed. Any friend of the ASp is certain to be asset to us all. Nice word, that dextrochauvinist, I shall use it often. Your "ambisinister" crusade is a noble cause, one that has been played out here before by some of the Elect, but sadly the cause appears to be lost. Never mind, if you remove the ordinary and banal from the world, we're what's Left. Dieu et mon gauche.


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Some of us like the term ambimanual.


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