From: Alex Ferguson (abf@cs.ucc.ie)
Date: Sat 05 Sep 1998 - 00:15:54 EEST
Duncan "Crested 'Newt" Rowlands writes:
> A quick side point, the term 'cack handed' is highly insulting, just
> consider its derivation!
A certain "cack-handed" colleague of mine has been known to use the
term "left footed" to denote persons of the "wrong religion", to boot.
This is also a "popular" expression in the west of Scotland, though
the religious persuasion thus denoted is entirely different -- which
is vaguely logical, if confusing.
ObGlorantha: there's a rather nifty passage in Harmast's Saga where
the Orlanthi are Winding Up the Dara Happans, with specific reference
to the particular purpose for which DHns use their left hands...
(Though terranalogophobes will presumably hate this.)
Slainte,
Alex.
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