Comment on Are there people without handedness?

BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’d have called it antidexterity

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  • Successful_Try543@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Looking at the origin:
    ambi, Greek: both;
    anti, Greek: against, opposed;
    dexter, Latin: right, skilful, clever; sinister, Latin: left, wrong, evil;

    So sinister is already anti-dexter, the ambi just emphasises that this not-skilfulness applies to both hands.

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    • kambusha@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Guess that’s similar to “two left feet” when dancing

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      • Successful_Try543@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes, that exists as well.

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, ambidexterity is comfort with both hands. Ambisinestrousness is discomfort with both hands.

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    • ahto@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They wrote antidexterity

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      • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh I missed that. That’s clever.

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    • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      anti

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    • Adderbox76@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Soooo…clutz, basically.

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  • SatyrSack@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • SolOrion@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Did you even read the OP or have they changed it?

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    • ahto@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They wrote antidexterity, not ambidexterity

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      • SolOrion@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        My brain just autocorrected it, I guess.

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• Poik@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is correct, but I prefer damnbidextrous, because I can’t do a damn thing with either hand.

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• python@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Awesome, that’s exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!!

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• samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• wolfpack86@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And as an English expression for when you have a penchant for dropping things: “I have two left hands”

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• GoOnASteamTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ahhh I just referred to myself as ambicrap! Thank you for this new word! :)

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