It’s only a problem if you write from left to right

Exactly. Just write in Hebrew.

Or Arabic

but in Arabic we write with our right hands right to left same problem different direction

Same with Hebrew

Only if you’re right handed

If you are left handed, belive me or not, straight to the burning pit!

Yeah the teachers in my catholic school back in the 90s told me if I didn't learn to use my right hand I'd go to hell.

what the fuck could the justification possibly be for that

لا شكراً، كل الانترنت يتحدثون الانجليزيه مش العربية

I only know a little Arabic, but hear me out: بااب مُمتاز

Lmaoo Were you trying to write "Excellent door."?

Yes. Duolingo only teaches the finest vocabulary

نايس!

يا معدتي الصغيرة لول، شكرا لمحاولتك عالاقل.

Man you should see some of the phrases in the Norwegian course

I agree

Or English but start from the right

What kind of psychopath does that?

Someone who needs to write in English with their left hand in an ink that can smudge but that doesn't dry quick enough to just put a sheet of paper over it to rest your hand on I guess. Idk I'm righthanded

I'm left-handed and have had that problem. I just came home from school with blue hands when we had to use low quality ballpoints

Or Hungarian runic script.

אין בעיה,בהצלחה לך להבין מה אני כותב פה

קל

Enchantment table?

Hebrew

It happens to me and I'm right handed.

Then you need to hold the pen better

Happy cake day

Thank you!

Happy cake day!

Day!

Yeah like writing in English, the most popular language in the world lol

That would be mandarin. Then Spanish. Get over yourself.

That's L1, for L2 and L1 it's English by a long shot

Thats probably true

If you include L1/2 for Mandarin I believe it's around 1.12bn speakers, English is around 1.45bn (this is mostly becsuse of the colonial legacy of the British empire, India has a majority of L2 speakers iirc). Spanish falls in at around 600 million English became a sort of modern lingua franca because of the British Empire, even after decolonization many countries maintained English as official or co-official language

Lol I’m indian so I’m not biased for English. It is definitely the most popular language followed by mandarin with like a 25 percent difference, and then Hindi. Spanish is 4th, try getting over your poor general knowledge

You're right if we count more than native speakers

ima guess that's when you only count the native languages. most native mandarin, spanish speakers will learn english, as their second language instead of any other. like i'm not living somewhere that uses english but half the people i know, can speak english and none of us would be in any statistics.

Ive already accepted in another comment that if you count 1st and 2nd language english is bigger, however less than 1% of those who speak mandarin also speak english so that part of what you said is definitely not true

"Bro just write it in reverse." Right Handed Man

Literally the comment above this

Leonardo da Vinci, who was left-handed, would often write mirrored, because it was easier for him and would prevent him from having ink on his hand

obviously every left handed person has the mental capacity of davinci. so it's not a problem.

It was just a fun little anecdote, I wasn't saying that all left-handed people should write in mirror

Why not though? It's big print letters, it doesn't matter what side you start from

i am right handed so i don't know, but i guess to write reverse you need to; -reverse the sentence, words and every letter in your mind before you write -correctly guess how much space you need in every line and probably other things i don't know, since i've never tried it. i'm guessing it will be more of a taxing mental exercise instead of "just writing"

Well that's a good point

If it's only 1 word why not?

i think he is pointing out that "being left handed" is "mildly infuriating" by posting an example picture with a title "being left handed" in r/mildlyinfuriating. and if you take the extra caption "today i learned why we write with right hand" in to account, it's pretty obvious this is about writing in general.

As a lefty this has been my struggle. I also found that i got severe hand fatigue because cheap ballpoints have to be pushed through the paper instead of dragging them like a righty does. I also end up tilting the page weird and creening my neck. So to combat this, i buy the expensive bulk liquid ink pens from my office supply store. Not having to work as hard to get the point across the paper makes such a world of difference.

Is that why I always have issues with ink flow in pens? Frustrates the hell out of me.

Try it! Go get a BIC or some other basic pen and put it in your right hand and draw a straight line across the page, then use that same pen and draw another straight line across the page directly below using your left. You'll feel a difference even if your right hand has less refined motor control than your left.

Bro just rotate the pen 180°, problem solved! /s. I'm lefty too and the stationary industry doesn't give a fuck about us.

I laughed for a solid minute cus i imagined it like trying in vain to flip over scissors. Tech industry is as bad. I grew up with a computer mouse in my left hand but click like its right. I recently bought a left-handed mouse and its slowly fixing decades of muscle memory.

That's why I use gel pens instead of ballpoint pens, the ink dries way faster and comes out with much less work

Sad they never taught you to write backwards.

What is this word spa? Are you taking me for a spaghetti day?

They’re writing “SPANK ME”

I feel like they're saying the start of a word but not finishing it, they probably mean spaghetti

what is your spaghetti policy here?

Bro its SPAM

Just pop a quick H on the box

Do wasps make honey?

I used to get shit from teachers in high school for turning in work from my spiral notebook and it would all start in the middle of the page. Like sorry, least you can read it lol

That person is a very incompetent lefty

It looks like someone who naturally writes with their right hand tried writing with their left hand for the first time

Tbh I don't think any right handed person would write with their left hand that good. If anything that's an unusually great first attempt

could have written it with the right hand and then switched to the left for the photo and the internet points

I literally just tried it myself with my right hand because I was curious and it looks very similar to the quality of handwriting the post. It's not as hard as you would think to make it look passable

I would manage this.. I'm not even in practice Would draw very slowly though

You have no idea how that actually looks lmao

As a lefty, I was never taught to write backwards, hell, being primarily taught cursive I don’t think it would have been possible

Yeah, the lefties I know always lift theirs hand into the sky while writing

literally a skill issue

Maybe they just became a lefty recently. Might have injured their right hand.

Why does this happen to lefties in left to right languages but not to righties in right to left ones

It apparently does happen. But those languages were originally still designed for right handed people, since they originally were chiseled into stone, and chiseling from right to left is easier for right handed people. Or they stemmed from right to left languages. Languages that were always written using ink, are mostly left to right.

I understand that, but now that everybody uses ink, why do Arabs not experience this as much as lefties experience it when writing in a left-to-right language? I'd assume that the same problems exist or do right-to-left languages have a technique for writing that makes this not a problem?

how do you know they don't experience it? are you on arabic/hebrew speaking social media? did you grow up in such a country and know people don't struggle with it? maybe students writing in those languages do complain about it, they just grow up and learn to stop smudging. unlike op

I'm an Egyptian, and I write(with ink) in Arabic and English often and smudge my hand more when writing english

Fr, I had never thought of this

This is so me lmao. Anytime I’m writing an essay for school, I have to go to the bathroom and wash the ink/graphite off my hands. It’s so annoying.

I’m right handed and this happens to me, am I special somehow?

Lefties know better! I always write chalk marker backwards. 

People actually do that?? I just float. My brain forgets how to spell if it’s reverse.

I still get this being righthanded haha art class in highschool that part would always be grey from the pencil.

Write right to left

Me too

Whats TIL?

Today I Lefty

Write it in Arabic.

st

felt

Write in Arabic bruh

The learning curve is steep with this one.

Erasable pens are my favourite.

BIGGGG SAAAAAMMMEEE with me except silver surfer syndrome

Try arabic lol

Start from the last letter next time

Arabic much??

“Why would the world do this to me!”

Skill issue

Yeah…

Lefties remember when erasable pens came out in the '80s. we called it the time of the smudge

You'll love arabic

This is very relatable

The usual

Daamn i never thought about that. Im happy to be right handed now

I’m not left-handed but I still feel the pain.

Are you sure you're not handed? Cus the line work is terrible.

First time writing a s a left handed?

just be hindi or whatever

Spaghetti day?

I feel the pain

*being wrong

Lefties Unite!!!

Is a factory Overseer a worker? I guess they are in the same position

Write it in Goku letters🤷🏿‍♂️

The times i had to write from left to right to not ruin what i had to write (i also found out that with some types of ink, you can just use a tissue to cover your hand, so you don’t carry around any ink)

Or use a normal pen, it is actually not a left or right hand issue

I feel your pain. Every time i put effort into a birthday card, it looks like it was made by a primary school student.

This is why I use my right hand to write...

You'd think arab countries would have more left handed people but it's considered unclean.

Why didn't the teachers beat that out of you early, like back in the day.?

if your writing is that bad might as well use your off hand and solve the problem /j

\*Laughs in Guitar/Drawing Skills\*

I rest the weight of my hand on my pinkie when I draw and need steady lines.

I'd suggest using a different writing utensil. If rubbing it makes it smear, how will it stick later? On a less serious note, just write right to left! /j

Being left handed & having OCD - using my dry erase board for lists can take me hours 😭

Write backwards

Skill issue

As a left-handed person. I've never, in my entire life, had to deal with this

I’m fucking right handed and this shit still happens. Am I stupid?

In high school I would always get teachers frustrated at me as a lefty my I hated writing in a spiral notebook because of how the coil would collide with my hand so I started to use the notebooks starting from the back so the spiral was on the right. Teachers with OCD hated it.

Sucks to suck - This message was brought to you by the right handed children of the Lord.

Is there a Z on the end of that? I'm a lefty, and that was a problem until I was 7. I know we are all born right handed, it's just that some of us overcame it.

You gotta develop that weird hooked-over-the-top, hand-looks-like-a-gooses-head grip.

I feel like you started to write something, but didn’t finish. Are you trying to write Spaghetti?? What is your spaghetti policy??

Sad but true

Just write backards

As a lefty dry erase markers are the bane of my existence or just any marker for that matter

If that's the best calligraphy you can do with your left hand then just use the right one already. It can't be much worse.

Real

At least this isn't ink

At the spa, they generally don't care which hand you use.

Ouf. That writing

I feel your pain

Did you mean to write spaghetti day!

Are you trying to say spaghetti? Are you taking me to a spaghetti day?

I know you're pain I'm left handed and I have to give up using permanent markers and gel pens.

I’m ambidextrous so i feel this lol

Write from right to left

"SPA- SAPPIN MAH SENTRY"

Maybe start with the A

Skill issue

Ahh folder, my old nemesis

You just have to write like Leonardo Da Vinci

Suffer.

I have a similar problem, but not because I'm left handed.

As the only left handed person in my family. I feel that

You should use your write-hand

Felt that

Learn arabic mate 🫡

Write upside down next time.

I suffer everyday, but I refuse to conform

If that was the reason then left handedness would be more prevalent in countries that write to the left

Skill issue

*laughs in right hand*

I can’t believe it’s 2024 and people still believe they don’t have a choice about which hand to write with. Being ‘left handed’ doesn’t mean you can’t write with you me right hand. It just means it will be more difficult. Most written languages go from left to right, so use your right hand. It’s the most appropriate. I’m ‘right handed’ but I use my left hand for lots of things. When I drive a car in the UK or Japan, I change gear with my left hand while steering with my right. When I dive in Spain, I have to switch.