I’m left-handed and growing up, in school, there were never enough left handed scissors between myself and the maybe two other lefties in my class so I would often need to use right-handed scissors. But they would either not cut paper at all or kind of tear the paper, forcing me to switch to my right hand to get the scissors to cut smoothly.
Just yesterday I needed to trim a label and no matter how I angled the scissors, they would not cut the paper but they immediately did once I switched to my right hand. Thus, how do scissors “know” which hand you’re holding them in?
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They don’t. Your hands go in opposite directions. The scissors have to, as well. Scissors, can-openers, spiral notebooks. A left-handed person writing in a standard notebook is going to be uncomfortable while their hand keeps hitting the spiral rings. Since English goes left to right, they’ll also have to deal with potentially smearing the letters and their skin getting stained. A right-handed person doesn’t have those problems because, as they write, they’re going away from the ink rather than over it.
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