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From: james_n@coulomb.uwaterloo.ca (James Nicoll)
Subject: Re: prestigious speech impediments
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In article <4fjbib$1kn@neptunus.pi.net>,
Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@pi.net> wrote:
>james_n@coulomb.uwaterloo.ca (James Nicoll) wrote:
>
>>	I also took a long time  to learn left from right intuitively,
>
>What do you mean by intuitively?

	If someone told me to turn to my left, I had to think about it
very briefly. Also, closing one eye looks like winking and random winking
makes one's social life more  interesting in ways I don't care for.

>>since I could just close one eye and tell by the way the world looked
>>which eye it was and therefore which side was which.
>
>That sounds pretty intuitive to me.  I have to look at my legs and
>(assuming I'm clothed) imagine the scar on my *left* upper leg to know
>which is which.  Fortunately, I don't drive...

	Neither do I, but that's more because I also have no depth 
perception. There are enough left/right challenged drivers out there
without me adding one who can't tell 10 meters from 40...

								James Nicoll
-- 
" The moral, if you're a scholar don't pick up beautiful babes on deserted 
lanes at night.  Real Moral, Chinese ghost stories have mostly been written 
by scholars who have some pretty strange fantasies about women."
							Brian David Phillips  
