I don’t mean Ambidextrous!

Yesterday I tried cutting a vegetable with the knife in my non-dominant hand and it was a weird and uncomfortable thing. I wonder if there are people who have that distinct discomfort of using your “bad” hand, but on both hands?

I don’t think it would fall under ambidexterity, because that kinda implies someone is comfortable with either hand, but could someone be uncomfortable with both?

  • Successful_Try543@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    Looking at the origin:
    ambi, Greek: both;
    anti, Greek: against, opposed;
    dexter, Latin: right, skilful, clever;
    sinister, Latin: left, wrong, evil;

    So sinister is already anti-dexter, the ambi just emphasises that this not-skilfulness applies to both hands. In German, calling somebody having “two left hands” means that they aren’t skilful at all in handcrafting.