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landon.az :
Why is the left column on the right and the right column on the left
2025-05-24 21:52:59
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🅢🅘🅡.🅕🅐🅡🅐🅐🅩 :
as a left handed person I can confirm I'm indeed an extremely evil demonic devil worshiper.
2025-05-24 22:02:20
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Latchezar Tomov :
The original latin word for left is laeva
2025-08-10 20:45:55
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Andrea G. Amato - 🧬 Scienza💡 :
In Italian an ‘accident’ is called a ‘sinistro’ (literally ‘a left’). Also ‘sinistro’ means ‘sinister’ :)
2025-05-24 22:43:27
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paddles :
everyone just calling lefties weirdos 😭
2025-05-24 21:56:21
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Miru🌿 :
in romanian sinistra means spooky, so it makes sense
2025-05-25 15:03:12
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Santi.b00 🇦🇷 :
to this day siniestra/o in Spanish still means sinister, something scary and evil
2025-05-25 00:21:50
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A :
You missed catalan
2025-05-25 09:11:41
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⭒☆Asteria☆⭒ :
In Spanish, the left used to be called siniestra too, but it fell out of use
2025-05-25 07:16:47
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Gurrutxiii :
did it really come from a basque word? I always thought it was the opposite! wow
2025-05-25 00:38:26
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feeladi :
Does the Romanian language come from Italian? or Latin? or do all three come from another older language?
2025-05-25 05:03:11
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Bes 🇵🇸 :
I’m ginger & left handed 👹
2025-05-25 22:11:09
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Driftwood Thyme | Color 🎨 :
Same with “fox” in French and “bear” in English. It was thought that saying the animal’s name would summon it so people used different words which led to the vocabulary we have today.
2025-05-24 22:16:49
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Ditch :
been scratching my head about this for years and you're telling me it's BASQUE
2025-05-25 00:06:47
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davidxivan :
So just like politicians today
2025-05-25 09:51:22
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Panagiotis Gournas :
Plus, “right” has always a common root with words for “correct”, “proper”, “skillful”
2025-05-24 23:37:13
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tiktokistoksik :
Sinister???
2025-05-24 21:56:17
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RootRevolution :
Why in politics does the left get such a foothold then?
2025-05-25 16:31:31
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galegapasempre :
Now, why is left & right applied as they are on the political spectrum? As the Spanish say, left liberates, right constricts.
2025-05-24 22:32:19
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Randwarf :
what about Lithuanian "kairė" for left and "dešinė" for right? neither of them have any positive or negative connotations, unless there's some archaic meaning I'm not aware of. feels like the "everyone" statement at the end may be a bit too broad?
2025-05-25 01:11:16
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𐔌⚢ . ⋮ Kirbi .ᐟ ֹ 🍓 ₊ ꒱ :
ROMANIA MENTION🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴🇷🇴
2025-05-25 14:33:21
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Latchezar Tomov :
The Romanian word is from Old Bulgarian, called also Old Church Slavonic
2025-08-10 20:47:43
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yes :
isn't the word bear a good example of this aswell? like we don't even know what they used to be called?
2025-07-25 16:27:09
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Panagiotis Varlagas :
@Panagiotis Varlagas: Interestingly enough, the Greek word for “left”, ἀριστερὰ (aristerà), while being Homeric, comes from ἄριστος (áristos), which means “the best” (cf. aristocracy, i.e. “ruler of the best”), pointing to some really old (pre-Homeric!) euphemism.
2025-05-24 22:19:38
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