Thanks for the speedy reply Robin. Dont want to "fix" just get a
whole picture and no dextrous is simply deft at doing things as in
clever they generally use the right hand for everything.
Ambidextrous uses specific hands to do specific jobs and can do it
with either. "lucky" and "special talents" like this when they reach
into later life are unusual. Young kids are often so but not the
older adult.
Do you have a rubric "dexterity" and where?
merrilee
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minutus@yahoogroups.com, "Robyn" wrote:
out when skating, however, i do many things in the 'right handed
mode' including playing guitar and all other musical instruments. I
play tennis with left hand and golf when younger) with the right. I
use a knife and fork as the righties do, but have to use my left to
get the soup to my mouth.
this as being darn lucky! a special talent!
various teachers when in grade school, by writing whole pages in this
manner (now this could have been repped maybe!)
which I believe means that a person can do the same task with both
hands with equal skill. I can write with my right hand, but it ain't
as good as the left so i don't think I am ambidextrous
instrument like the guitar any other way than the accepted standard -
it makes no sense, as both hands are used for the task. It causes no
end of problems for others trying to show these people how to play,
as i found when teaching guitar earlier in my life.
inflexible, and this could be looked at for tasks that use both
hands, and don't require strength or agility to execute.
guitarists take offence.
future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a
world that no longer exists." (E. Hoffer)
hand.